Senior Director Eng, Buyer & Community
Core
Drive technical vision and execution for eBay's core user experience, blending strategic leadership with elite technical execution to build communities and create economic opportunity.
Role type
Senior Director, Engineering (Buyer & Community)
Builds
Core user experience, buyer communities, and large-scale consumer internet applications
Domain
E-commerce, Marketplace, Consumer Internet
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Strategic technical leadership, large-scale distributed systems architecture, AI/ML production deployment, organizational scaling (100+ engineers), system design, SLO/SLI management, CI/CD, stakeholder management
Preferred skills
Event-driven architectures, microservices, massive data platform engineering, marketplace/e-commerce domain expertise
Technologies
AI/ML, distributed systems, microservices, data platforms
Responsibilities
Create and champion multi-year engineering roadmaps aligned with macro technology trends; Lead and scale a world-class engineering organization across architecture, platform, and product engineering; Maintain technical depth by diving into codebases and prototyping breakthrough capabilities; Elevate engineering standards including system design reviews and observability; Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and Business executives to unlock business outcomes.
Seniority
Senior Director, hands-on IC with management of managers
