Software Engineer – Engineering Systems

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 we power how the world buys sells and gives.

As a global commerce leader eBay empowers millions of users and businesses around the world. Were driven by purpose guided by our core values and committed to building an inclusive open and dynamic work culture. If youre passionate about engineering productivity tooling infrastructure and building impactful systems at scalewe want to talk to you.

About the Team

The Engineering Systems Tools team at eBay builds and operates the internal tooling and infrastructure that supports thousands of developers across the company. Our mission is to enhance developer efficiency through automation self-service platforms and seamless provisioning.

We support and extend core platforms including JIRA Confluence GitHub Enterprise Artifactory SonarQube Gradle and Airtable while building and maintaining custom applications tailored to internal engineering workflows.

On the infrastructure side we operate across multi-cloud environments (GCP AWS Azure) and are actively investing in container orchestration (Kubernetes) infrastructure-as-code and service automation to modernize our stack. We own the full lifecycle of our toolsfrom development and deployment to monitoring and operationsand collaborate closely with teams across the company to deliver resilient scalable solutions.

What Youll Do:

• Design build and maintain full-stack internal tooling and platforms that improve engineering productivity and automation.
  

• Develop and support RESTful APIs microservices and front-end interfaces that integrate with both third-party and custom-built tools.
  

• Operate and scale cloud-based infrastructure across GCP AWS and Azure; contribute to infrastructure provisioning configuration management and monitoring.
  

• Implement and support Kubernetes-based containerization workflows including service deployment and resource optimization.
  

• Automate infrastructure and operations using tools like Terraform Helm and CI/CD pipelines.
  

• Own the full lifecycle of systemsfrom requirements gathering to deployment and post-release support.
  

• Troubleshoot performance and reliability issues across the stack and work on platform hardening.
  

• Collaborate with product owners site reliability engineers and developers to continuously improve platform usability and reliability.
  

• Contribute to architectural decisions technical design reviews and code reviews; mentor junior team members where applicable.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in software engineering and platform operations in a large-scale or enterprise environment.
  

• Strong programming skills in Java (preferred) with experience in Spring Boot or similar frameworks. Bonus for front-end experience (React Angular or similar).
  

• Experience designing deploying and managing applications in Kubernetes and Dockerized environments.
  

• Solid background in multi-cloud architecture and automation across GCP AWS or Azure.
  

• Familiarity with internal developer platforms and tools like JIRA GitHub Artifactory SonarQube and related systems.
  

• Comfortable with monitoring/logging stacks (e.g. Prometheus Grafana ELK or similar).
  

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform Ansible or similar.
  

• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across distributed systems APIs and infrastructure layers.
  

• Ability to translate platform needs into maintainable performant code and configuration.
  

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across engineering and infrastructure domains.
  

Education:

• Bachelors Degree or Equivalent

Benefits:

Benefits are an essential part of your total compensation for the work you do every day. Whether youre single in a growing family or nearing retirement eBay offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefit programs to meet your needs. Including maternal & paternal leave paid sabbatical and plans to help ensure your financial security today and in the years ahead because we know feeling financially secure during your working years and through retirement is important.

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