Staff StreamingMessaging Infra Engineer

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.

• Architect & Scale Infrastructure: Design build and operate eBays core control plane and data plane for Apache Flink and Apache Kafka on multi-cluster Kubernetes environments across multiple DCs/AZs.
• Build Streaming Lakehouses: Lead the design and development of our real-time streaming lakehouse storage architecture enabling low-latency analytical workloads at massive scale.
• Ensure Operational Excellence: Drive high availability automated fault recovery and zero-downtime operations for large-scale production streaming topologies.
• Enhance System Observability: Advance enterprise monitoring distributed tracing automated alerting and failure-diagnosis tooling to maximize platform uptime.
• Collaborate Globally: Partner with cross-functional architecture and platform teams worldwide to shape the future of eBays real-time data ecosystem.
• Demonstrated proficiency buildingproduction-grade software with AI coding agents improving engineering velocity while maintaining high standards for quality availability and maintainability.
• Ability todecompose problems and provide agents with the right context specifications constraints and validation criteria.
• Ability tocapture and express business architecture codebase and operational knowledgeso AI coding agents can execute complex tasks accurately and autonomously.
• Hands-on experience deliveringcomplex production-quality software using AI coding toolssuch as Claude Code Codex etc.

• Core Distributed Systems Experience: Deep hands-on background in computer science fundamentals (data structures concurrency OS internals and networking) with strong expertise in Java Rust or C.
• Stream Processing Engine Expertise: Strong hands-on experience developing tuning and operating Apache Flink at scale (e.g. state backend management checkpointing tuning custom operators Flink Kubernetes Operator).
• Distributed Messaging Deep-Dive: Proven experience with Apache Kafka (or Pulsar/RocketMQ) including core broker architecture partition strategy and control/data plane management.
• Container & Multi-Cluster Orchestration: Solid experience running high-throughput stateful workloads on Kubernetes across hybrid or private cloud environments.
• Streaming Lakehouse Knowledge: Familiarity with modern streaming table formats and storage engines such as Apache Paimon Apache Iceberg or Apache Fluss.

• Direct experience writing custom Kubernetes operators or control planes for distributed data systems.
• Deep knowledge of embedded storage engines (RocksDB LevelDB) and memory management.
• Active contributions to open-source projects in the streaming ecosystem (e.g. Apache Flink Apache Kafka Apache Paimon).

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