Senior Technical Lead – Traffic

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Job Type: Full-time

At eBay Traffic Engineering powers secure scalable and highly available traffic systems that support our global commerce platform. This role sits at the center of networking platform engineering performance optimization and production reliability. The team is focused on building intelligent traffic management solutions advancing PoP and caching strategies improving observability and cyber resilience and enabling eBay to innovate at internet scale.

We are looking for a Senior Technical Lead to lead the architecture development and evolution of eBays traffic engineering platform. This is an L26-level role for an experienced technical leader who can operate beyond a single component or team drive design across multiple functional areas influence technical direction and improve engineering effectiveness across the organization. You will combine deep systems and networking expertise with strong execution mentoring and multi-functional leadership to deliver secure scalable and high-performance traffic solutions for eBays global platform.

• Lead the technical strategy architecture and delivery for traffic engineering systems spanning traffic management load balancing service connectivity PoP optimization and caching infrastructure.

• Design and build resilient secure and high-performance distributed systems using C/C and Go along with modern cloud-native platform patterns.

• Own technical decisions across multiple functional areas balancing scalability reliability performance security maintainability and time-to-market tradeoffs.

• Drive platform evolution on Kubernetes including networking integrations such as CNI service mesh IPAM and production-grade deployment patterns.

• Establish and improve engineering metrics aligned to team and business goals using observability and production insights to drive reliability efficiency and customer impact.

• Lead incident prevention and operational excellence through strong observability cyber security controls performance tuning and robust system design.

• Partner with product infrastructure security and adjacent engineering teams to align roadmaps resolve cross-team dependencies and drive technical consensus.

• Mentor engineers and technical leads through design reviews code reviews architecture guidance and hands-on problem solving setting the standard for engineering quality across the team.

• Act as a technical multiplier by improving platform capabilities team productivity development practices and long-term architectural direction.

• Contribute to eBays innovation culture through open-source engagement patents and forward-looking technical exploration in networking and traffic systems.

• Bachelors or Masters degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.

• 12 years of software engineering experience with significant depth in networking traffic engineering distributed systems or cyber security.

• Strong proficiency in C/C and Go with experience building production-grade high-performance systems.

• Deep expertise in low-level Linux networking traffic management and systems performance optimization.

• Strong experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure at scale.

• Proven experience designing scalable secure and observable distributed systems.

• Proven ability to lead sophisticated technical initiatives across teams and influence architecture beyond an immediate area.

• Strong mentoring communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to guide teams through ambiguity and technical tradeoffs.

• Hands-on experience with Envoy service mesh control plane and data plane architectures SDN eBPF NGINX HAProxy network security or comparable traffic load-balancing technologies.

• Experience in service mesh Kubernetes CNI and IPAM management.

• Experience building or operating products in the security domain.

• Strong background in caching strategies PoP design and internet-scale traffic optimization.

• Familiarity with Java or related backend ecosystems.

• Contributions to open-source projects patents or externally visible technical innovation.

• Experience working in large-scale globally distributed engineering environments.

In this role you will be expected to operate as a senior technical leader who extends impact beyond day-to-day execution: shaping architecture across systems driving measurable improvements in traffic platform outcomes mentoring engineers and influencing adjacent teams through strong technical judgment and collaboration.

Additional Details

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