MTS 2, Software Engineer, Data Platforms
Core
Building a fully declarative data platform to manage end-to-end data lifecycle, optimize pipelines, and eliminate inefficiencies in eBay's data infrastructure.
Role type
Senior IC data platform engineer (distributed systems)
Builds
Declarative data platform, computation graphs, optimized pipelines, lakehouse/warehouse systems
Domain
E-commerce data infrastructure, distributed systems, big data
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
distributed systems design, system architecture, pipeline optimization, observability, incident response, cross-team collaboration
Preferred skills
governance engineering, orchestration, privacy engineering
Technologies
Kafka, Flink, Spark, Delta, Iceberg, Kubernetes, NoSQL, columnar stores, CI/CD, containerized environments
Responsibilities
Design and evolve distributed systems for ingestion, streaming, and governance; contribute to long-term architecture and design documents; drive operational excellence for owned services; balance latency, correctness, and cost in system design.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
