Capacity Planning Engineer
Core
Optimizing resource management and ensuring flawless operations for eBay's global ecommerce platform across hybrid cloud environments.
Role type
Senior IC capacity planning engineer
Builds
Scalable infrastructure for hybrid environments (on-prem Kubernetes, Azure, GCP) and data platforms (Hadoop, Spark)
Domain
Ecommerce, Cloud Infrastructure, Big Data
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Capacity planning, Infrastructure demand analysis, Resource forecasting, Cost optimization, Root cause analysis, Scenario modeling, Kubernetes management, Data center coordination, Observability design, Automation tooling
Preferred skills
Advanced capacity engineering methodologies, Large-scale federated environment experience, Strategic resource prioritization
Technologies
Kubernetes, Azure, GCP, Hadoop, Spark, MapReduce, HDFS, Grafana, Prometheus
Responsibilities
Partner with platform teams to execute capacity strategy across hybrid environments; Analyze infrastructure demand and utilization to forecast capacity needs; Coordinate capacity intake and resource prioritization across data centers and network; Monitor system performance to identify bottlenecks and drive optimization; Design and develop dashboards and observability solutions; Conduct "what-if" and scenario modeling for traffic growth and new features; Support large-scale, federated Kubernetes environments; Contribute to tooling and automation for capacity planning and workload optimization.
Seniority
Mid-level, hands-on IC