MTS 2 Distributed Databases

At eBay were more than a global ecommerce leader were changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. Were committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.

Our customers are our compass authenticity thrives bold ideas are welcome and everyone can bring their unique selves to work every day. Were in this together sustaining the future of our customers our company and our planet.

Join a team of passionate thinkers innovators and dreamers and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

At eBay were more than a global ecommerce leader were changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. Were committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.

Our customers are our compass authenticity thrives bold ideas are welcome and everyone can bring their unique selves to work every day. Were in this together sustaining the future of our customers our company and our planet.

Join a team of passionate thinkers innovators and dreamers and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

Our NuData team at eBay brings together exceptional engineers who are pushing the boundaries of distributed systems to build the next generation of database platforms powering eBays global marketplace. NuData builds and operates petabyte-scale highly available distributed data platforms supporting some of eBays most critical workloads.

We are seeking an experienced Member of Technical Staff 2 (MTS 2) to join the NuData team in Bengaluru. You will work closely with NuData engineers technical leads and architects in Bengaluru the U.S. China and Ireland to design build and operate highly scalable distributed database systems.

In this role you will take ownership of significant components and capabilities within NuDatas distributed database platforms. You will solve challenging engineering problems involving scalability availability performance consistency and operational efficiency and contribute to the design and evolution of systems operating at eBay scale.

This is a highly hands-on engineering role. You will design and implement production software write and review code develop prototypes benchmark solutions debug complex system and production issues and work with other engineers to deliver reliable distributed systems. You will participate in architectural and design discussions and help turn technical requirements into robust production solutions.

You will also work directly with NuData customers when needed to understand workloads troubleshoot technical issues and help ensure our platforms meet their performance reliability and scalability requirements.

• Design develop test and operate critical components and capabilities within NuDatas large-scale distributed database platforms.

• Take end-to-end ownership of significant features and componentsfrom requirements and technical design through implementation testing deployment monitoring and production support.

• Write high-quality production-grade code and actively participate in design and code reviews.

• Solve complex engineering problems across areas such as storage transactions replication distributed consensus partitioning geo-distribution and high-concurrency systems.

• Contribute to technical designs and architectural decisions by evaluating alternatives identifying tradeoffs and working with senior engineers and architects to select effective solutions.

• Improve the scalability latency availability reliability and infrastructure efficiency of systems operating at eBay scale.

• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across software storage networking and distributed-system boundaries and implement solutions that prevent recurrence.

• Build prototypes and conduct performance benchmarks to evaluate new designs algorithms and technologies before bringing them into production.

• Partner with engineers technical leads product managers and NuData customers to understand requirements and translate them into robust technical solutions.

• Contribute to strong engineering practices around design code quality testing observability automation deployment and operational readiness.

• Share technical knowledge and provide guidance to other engineers through design discussions code reviews documentation and collaborative problem solving.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and open-source solutions and apply them where they can improve NuDatas architecture performance or engineering efficiency.

• Effectively use AI-assisted engineering tools to improve development velocity while maintaining high standards for correctness reliability security and maintainability.

• Masters degree in Computer Science or a related technical field with 6 years of experience or a Bachelors degree with 8 years of experience building large-scale software systems.

• Strong hands-on experience designing developing and operating distributed systems databases storage systems or large-scale data infrastructure.

• Strong understanding of distributed-systems concepts including replication consistency partitioning fault tolerance high availability and distributed consensus.

• Strong understanding of database and storage-system fundamentals including areas such as storage management write-ahead logging (WAL) transactions concurrency control indexing caching and query processing.

• Understanding of transaction-management concepts including isolation levels concurrency control locking crash recovery replication and failover.

• Understanding of distributed-system failure modes including network partitions partial failures and consensus protocols such as RAFT/PAXOS.

• Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures algorithms concurrency networking operating systems and software design.

• Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as C Java Python Scala or equivalent languages with experience developing and debugging production software.

• Experience with Object-Oriented Design distributed programming and relational and/or NoSQL database systems.

• Experience with modern infrastructure technologies and cloud-native environments including technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.

• Ability to analyze and diagnose complex performance and production issues across multiple layers of a distributed system.

• Demonstrated ability to independently own significant software components and features from design through production.

• Ability to break down complex technical problems evaluate alternatives and develop high-quality engineering solutions.

• Ability to contribute effectively to architecture and design discussions and clearly explain technical decisions and tradeoffs.

• Strong engineering discipline around code quality testing observability automation reliability and operational readiness.

• Ability to write clear technical designs and documentation for significant features and components.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively with engineers technical leads product teams and customers.

• Demonstrated proficiency building production-grade software with AI coding agents improving engineering velocity while maintaining high standards for quality availability and maintainability.

• Ability to decompose problems and provide agents with the right context specifications constraints and validation criteria.

• Ability to capture and express business architecture codebase and operational knowledge so AI coding agents can execute complex tasks accurately and autonomously.

• Hands-on experience delivering complex production-quality software using AI coding tools such as Claude Code Codex etc.

• Ability to work effectively in a globally distributed engineering organization and collaborate with teams in Bengaluru the U.S. China and Ireland.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively using both synchronous and asynchronous collaboration.

Additional Details

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