Software Engineer Traffic

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.

As a Software Engineer Traffic at eBay you will help design build and operate traffic management and routing systems that support the availability performance and security of eBays large-scale commerce platforms.

You will work on high-performance low-latency architectures and modern infrastructure including Kubernetes to support reliable services at scale. The role involves close collaboration with SRE platform and application teams and provides opportunities to work with modern tooling large-scale distributed systems and experienced engineering teams.

• Design build and maintain services and tools that manage and optimize traffic flow using Java C or Go.

• Improve network security by implementing secure service communication routing controls hardening and policy enforcement.

• Deploy operate and troubleshoot services running on Kubernetes across distributed environments.

• Improve system latency and throughput through efficient architecture profiling benchmarking and performance tuning.

• Use logs metrics and traces to diagnose production issues perform root-cause analysis and deliver reliability improvements.

• Partner with SRE platform and application teams to integrate traffic and networking solutions safely and effectively.

• Build experience with modern infrastructure large-scale systems and traffic engineering while benefiting from mentorship and growth opportunities.

• A Masters degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science Engineering or a related field; or a Bachelors degree or equivalent experience plus 2 years of relevant experience in networking/traffic engineering platform infrastructure or related work.

• Proficiency in Java C or Go including knowledge of data structures concurrency fundamentals and debugging.

• Understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP HTTP/HTTPS DNS load balancing and TLS.

• Understanding of Linux and distributed systems fundamentals.

• Experience with Kubernetes containers such as Docker and service-to-service networking.

• Familiarity with technologies such as Envoy NGINX or HAProxy and observability tools such as Prometheus Grafana ELK or OpenTelemetry.

• Experience with performance profiling benchmarking or latency reduction; exposure to point-of-presence (PoP) edge or global traffic-steering concepts is beneficial.

• Competitive salary and benefits.

• Mentorship and growth opportunities.

• Exposure to modern tooling and large-scale systems.

Additional Details

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