Senior Capacity Planning Engineer
Core
Forecasting infrastructure demand and optimizing resource efficiency for eBay's global ecommerce platform across hybrid environments.
Role type
Senior IC capacity planning engineer (cloud & data infrastructure)
Builds
Capacity plans, dashboards, observability solutions, and automation for compute, storage, and network resources
Domain
Ecommerce, Cloud Infrastructure, Big Data
Required skills
Cloud engineering, data analysis, Kubernetes, capacity planning, scenario modeling, root cause analysis, infrastructure sizing
Preferred skills
Master's degree in engineering or computer science, AI infrastructure concepts (LLMs, vector databases), Hadoop/Spark/MapReduce expertise
Technologies
Kubernetes, Azure, GCP, Grafana, Prometheus, Hadoop, Spark, MapReduce, HDFS
Responsibilities
Develop and execute capacity plans across hybrid environments; Partner with platform and data teams to translate workload characteristics into forecasts; Analyze utilization trends to identify bottlenecks and drive efficiency; Build dashboards and observability solutions; Conduct scenario and 'what-if' modeling; Support federated Kubernetes environments and contribute to automation tooling
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
