Software Engineer - Traffic
Core
Design, build, and operate traffic management and routing systems to ensure the availability, performance, and security of eBay's large-scale commerce platforms.
Role type
Senior IC infrastructure engineer (traffic engineering)
Builds
High-performance, low-latency traffic management and routing services
Domain
Ecommerce, large-scale distributed systems, network infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Java, C++, or Go, networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, load balancing, TLS), Linux, distributed systems, Kubernetes, containers (Docker), service-to-service networking, observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry), performance profiling and benchmarking
Preferred skills
Envoy, NGINX, HAProxy, point-of-presence (PoP), edge, global traffic-steering concepts
Responsibilities
Design and maintain services optimizing traffic flow, implement network security controls and policy enforcement, deploy and troubleshoot services on Kubernetes, improve system latency and throughput, diagnose production issues using logs/metrics/traces, partner with SRE and platform teams
Seniority
Mid-to-Senior, hands-on IC