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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.

Intern Software Engineering Data Platforms

full time starting in March-April-May 2026 6 months student status required

About the team and the role

Cloud Data Technologies (CDT) builds and manages the data infrastructure that powers the full lifecycle of eBays datafrom onsite systems through analytics. The team focuses on scalable reliable distributed systems used across the company. As an Intern Software Engineer (Data Platforms) youll help design and deliver services that advance eBays Core Data Platform improving scalability reliability and the overall developer experience. This role sits within Data Platform Engineering focused on building the platform rather than application-level data pipelines.

What you will accomplish

• Design implement test deploy and operate distributed services and features that strengthen eBays Core Data Platform.
• Build and enhance platform capabilities across ingestion streaming lakehouse/warehouse catalog and data governance.
• Write production-grade code with strong observability practices including metrics logs traces and well-defined SLOs.
• Diagnose and resolve performance scalability and correctness issues within distributed environments.
• Contribute technical design documents and engage in reviews to support reliability security and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with product infrastructure and analytics teams to align platform work with business outcomes and expand your experience with high-scale distributed systems.
  

What you will bring

• Interest in developing as a professional software engineer with strong fundamentals in distributed systems (consensus replication partitioning consistency models fault tolerance).
• Practical experience building and operating distributed systems in production plus strong coding skills in Java or Python and familiarity with CI/CD.
• Hands-on experience with one or more of the following: Kafka/Flink Spark Delta/Iceberg Kubernetes or NoSQL/columnar data stores.
• Solid debugging performance analysis and system design capabilities.
• (Optional) Experience with multi-tenant platform services data governance or privacy-by-design controls

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