Software Engineer – Distributed Systems

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About the team and role:

eBays Cloud Security Engineering team is building the next generation of identity and access platforms that power secure scalable and seamless experiences across our global marketplace.

Our distributed systems support millions of users services and transactions and are foundational to eBays trust safety and reliability. As a Distributed Systems Engineer on this team you will design and build directory services and policy engines that form the backbone of identity access and authorization at eBay.

You will help evolve traditional identity systems into intelligent real-time platforms. You will use advanced insights automation and adaptive decision-making. This will secure both human and non-human identities worldwide. You will work closely with identity platform and security teams.

What you will accomplish:

• Build and deliver cloud-scale directory services that optimally manage identity entitlement and relationship data across eBays ecosystem improving security and platform trust.

• Build and optimize high-performance policy engines and low-latency identity lookup services that enable real-time fine-grained authorization (RBAC ABAC PBAC) for millions of transactions.

• Develop and evolve APIs and microservices for identity lookup entitlement management and access decisioning that are resilient observable and easy for partner teams to integrate.

• Integrate AI/ML capabilities into authorization and policy evaluation workflows to provide intelligent access decisions detect anomalies and continuously improve policy efficiency.

• Use AI-powered development and operations tools to increase engineering velocity enhance code quality and improve reliability of distributed systems in production.

• Collaborate with multi-functional identity platform and security partners to define next-generation access and policy frameworks participate in design reviews and drive continuous improvement of eBays global security posture.

What you will bring:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience in software engineering.

• 7 years of backend or distributed systems engineering experience with strong understanding of replication consistency partitioning and fault tolerance in large-scale environments.

• Hands-on experience with directory services large-scale data or identity platforms and modern backend development (Java Go or similar) including building scalable APIs and microservices.

• Proficiency with datastores such as SQL NoSQL or graph-based systems and familiarity with modeling identity relationships entitlements and access policies.

• Strong foundation in authorization concepts and systems (RBAC ABAC PBAC) with experience or interest in policy engines (e.g. OPA Cedar) IAM/LDAP or cloud-native identity platforms.

• Practical experience with AI/ML concepts or AI-powered development tools and exposure to cloud-native architectures (e.g. Kubernetes service meshes) to operate secure reliable systems at global scale.

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Additional Details

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.

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