Senior MTS, Software Engineer

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.

Do you have passion for solving problems that come at scale At eBay we deal with petabytes of data that is queried and transformed at a rapid basis - we do 100s of billions of queries per day and update billions of dealing with data of this size and volume is not very exciting we would like to mention that we are forming a team that will build a geo-distributed always available and high-performance distributed database platform demonstrating cloud technologies.

A Senior Software Engineer in the database platform team has knowledge and ideas on how to develop innovative solutions smartly. The database platform is being built by a team that has the culture and the environment technologists find at a startup. We are looking for outstanding software engineers with strong development experience in building scalable and geo-distributed solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong understanding of relevant programming languages databases transaction systems distributed systems consensus algorithms replication design patterns storage and network. Exceptional problem solving abilities will be critical for success as will be a focus on our environment quality is everyones responsibility passion is key innovation and creativity is strongly encouraged. The successful candidate will participate in the entire lifecycle of a product ranging from architecture through testing and production rollout.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Be part of a team of phenomenal engineers building next-gen database platform using the latest open source technologies

• Design and implement differentiated production-ready features in a fast-pace environment with focus on scalability performance geo distribution and availability

• Rollout features at the pace of business changes and requirements

• Passion to bring out innovative ideas and try out new solutions while being open minded to feedback from the team

• Relentless focus on quality and automation

Job Requirements:

• More than 5 years of experience developing/testing/deploying secure production quality software products

• Expert level programming (C) and scripting skills (Bash) are required with demonstrated ability to solve complex problems

• Prior experience building distributed systems at internet scale

• Deep expertise in PostgreSQL internals: storage/buffer manager WAL MVCC lock manager query planner/executor

• Strong transaction managementbackground: isolation levels concurrency control deadlock detection crash recovery physical/logical replication and HA/failover strategies

• Experience in performance engineering: profiling (perf gdb flamegraphs) benchmarking (pgbench) autovacuumtuning index/statistics optimization and I/O/memory optimization for large-scale workloads is preferred

• Technical leadership experience in guiding teams and making architectural decisions

• Bachelor in Computer Science or equivalent is required.

• Demonstrated experience in leading critical project to production

Additional Details

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