MTS 2, Software Engineer, Data Platforms

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MTS 2 Software Engineer Data Platforms

Company: eBay

Location: Austin/Portland

Job Type: Full-time

About eBay

eBay is a global commerce leader that connects millions of buyers and sellers around the world. We empower people and create economic opportunities for individuals businesses and communities. Were driven by a vision to create a more sustainable form of commerce that benefits the environment and society as a whole. Join us as we continue to innovate and shape the future of e-commerce.

Job Description:

Cloud Data Technologies (CDT) team at eBay is responsible for all the data infrastructure and management of end-to-end data lifecycle for all eBay data from onsite to analytics use cases. We are seeking a Software Engineer passionate about data-driven technologies and architectures.

About the Role

We are seeking MTS 2 Software Engineers to contribute to the design and development of eBays Core Data Platform. In this role you will help build scalable reliable and cost-efficient systems that enable users to develop pipelines manage data and unlock insights across the company. Your work will play a key part in strengthening the foundation of eBays data platform infrastructure.

This role is focused on Data Platform Engineering not data engineering. While familiarity with Spark Flink and other tools in the Hadoop ecosystem is valuable your primary responsibility will be building and evolving the platform itself not just authoring data pipelines.

If you are an engineer eager to deepen your expertise in distributed data processing and platform development this team offers the opportunity to learn contribute and grow.

What youll do and learn

• Own and deliver major components of eBays Data Platforms from design through production rollout.

• Design and evolve distributed systems powering ingestion streaming lakehouse/warehouse catalog and governance.

• Contribute to long-term architecture through design reviews and authoring architecture design documents ensuring scalability and resilience.

• Build systems that balance latency correctness and cost while ensuring security and compliance.

• Drive operational excellence for services you own including observability and incident response.

• Collaborate across product infra and analytics teams to align execution with business needs.

• Learn and grow in areas like governance orchestration and privacy engineering.
  

What you bring

• Experience designing large-scale distributed systems (compute storage APIs streaming).

• Ability to independently deliver complex projects from requirements to production.

• Systems thinker who anticipates bottlenecks schema evolution and reliability issues.

• Strong communication skills to influence cross-team technical outcomes.

• Growth mindset with curiosity to learn new technologies.
  

What we bring

• Impact at scale: powering global analytics and ML systems.

• Challenging problems: streaming freshness/correctness and multi-cloud resiliency.

• Collaborative culture that values inclusion and knowledge sharing.

• Support & growth: flexibility benefits and career development resources.

• Focus on reliability and sustainable on-call practices.
  

Qualifications

• 8 years of distributed systems or data platform experience.

• Proven ability to design and deliver critical systems with impact.

• Proficiency in Java/Python CI/CD and containerized environments.

• Hands-on expertise in tools like Kafka/Flink Spark Delta/Iceberg Kubernetes NoSQL/columnar stores.

• Experience in streaming and batch data platforms.

• Strong foundation in algorithms and distributed design.

• BS/MS in CS or equivalent experience.

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors including location skills and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired employees will be in an at-will position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time including for reasons related to individual performance Company or individual department/team performance and market factors.

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