Cloud Traffic Engineering Manager

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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.

About the Team and Role

The eBay Cloud team powers the foundational cloud infrastructure that supports thousands of eBay applications. As one of the largest private cloud platforms in the industry we operate and manage hundreds of Kubernetes clusters across diverse environments comprising millions of compute instances.

The Traffic team is critical to the availability and performance of eBays private cloud. Our responsibilities encompass the end-to-end management of all cloud traffic infrastructure including load balancing global traffic management (GTM) Point of Presence (PoP) service mesh API gateways and advanced network policies. We design deploy and operate high-performance fault-tolerant traffic routing solutions that handle billions of daily requests ensuring seamless low-latency connectivity for both internal microservices and external customer traffic. This involves continuous optimization of data plane performance rigorous security enforcement at the edge and within the cluster and developing self-service tools that empower application teams to configure their connectivity reliably and securely across our massive global footprint.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Cloud Traffic Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for the development operations and governance of one of the largest private clouds in the world based on Kubernetes.

You will guide and mentor a team of hardworking engineers in building and maintaining robust secure and scalable cloud offerings that empower eBays core product engineering organizations and initiatives.

We require a unique blend of cloud expertise traffic management software development management experience and strong leadership skills. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of cloud-native technologies experience managing and developing software engineering teams passion for building scalable and reliable systems and excellent people skills to cultivate a high-performing team.

What you will accomplish:

Leadership & People Management

Lead and mentor a team of cloud engineers fostering a strong culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

Conduct regular one-on-one meetings with team members providing guidance feedback and support for their career development.

Manage performance evaluations and provide constructive feedback and actively participate in all phases of growing the engineering organization through recruiting team

building etc.

Cloud Engineering Operations & Governance:

Lead and coordinate engineering activities to successfully plan communicate and deliver on product features on time while designing for quality observability and

scalability.

Ensure full software lifecycle instrumentation from requirement ideation to software development to deployment.

Drive the adoption of cloud-native technologies and standard processes such as service mesh microservices etc.

Collaboration with internal partners and team members:

Cloud engineering and operations teams product and PMO on engineering resource allocation and project schedules in accordance with our strategic organizational priorities.

Cloud SRE team to champion automation to enhance efficiency and reliability.

Operations teams on maintaining a highly available cloud infrastructure to ensure eBays products and services are available to our customers.

Fleet management team on capacity planning resource allocation and cost optimization for the private cloud.

Information security teams to ensure integrity and compliance of the cloud infrastructure by implementing appropriate security controls and monitoring.

Global security teams to ensure the products are protected against external and internal threats

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.

• 10 years of software engineering experience including 3 years of people management or technical leadership.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to bridge technical and design perspectives.

• Strong technical background with a deep understanding of cloud-native architectures and technologies (e.g. Kubernetes containerization service mesh microservices).

• Experience with software development networking and security technologies in a large-scale cloud environment.

• Experience working in large distributed global teams and supporting medium or large-scale technology organizations with multiple internal partners.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Direct experience with customizing and maintaining Linux operating system kernels for large-scale high-performance computing platforms.

• Experience in capacity planning resource allocation and cost optimization for large private cloud infrastructure.

• Knowledge of software development networking security and storage technologies in a cloud environment and proven understanding of cloud-native architectures microservices

• DevOps and SRE principles.

• Deep expertise in implementing and championing automation to enhance efficiency and reliability.

• Professional certifications related to Kubernetes (e.g. CKA CKS) or cloud infrastructure.

• Proven ability to work closely with Information Security teams on compliance security controls and monitoring for cloud infrastructure.

• Understanding of developer experience (DX) principles for API-driven platforms.

• Strong product mindset balancing security rigor with customer empathy and usability.

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