4 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define architecture and technical strategy for global traffic management, load balancing, service connectivity, PoP optimization, caching, and traffic security systems.
- Architect and deliver rate-limiting and bot-mitigation solutions across edge and service layers.
- Design and build high-performance, low-latency distributed systems using C/C++ and Go, with Java for relevant components.
- Drive Kubernetes networking and platform patterns at scale, including CNI integrations, service mesh, IPAM, and production deployment models.
- Establish observability and engineering metrics to improve SLOs, reduce incidents, and increase efficiency.
- Lead incident prevention, resiliency design, capacity and performance tuning, and automated remediation.
- Align roadmaps and execution across Product, Infrastructure, SRE/Operations, and Security teams.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads through architecture, design, and code reviews.
- Contribute to open-source engagement, patents, and forward-looking traffic-systems innovation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 15+ years of software engineering experience with significant depth in networking/traffic engineering, distributed systems, and/or cybersecurity.
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ and Go, with Java experience valuable for specific subsystems.
- Deep knowledge of Linux networking, traffic-management fundamentals, and systems performance optimization.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure at scale.
- Experience designing, securing, observing, and operating scalable distributed platforms in production.
- Demonstrated cross-team technical leadership, architectural influence, and delivery of large initiatives.
- Strong communication, mentoring, and technical decision-making skills.
- Preferred experience with Envoy, service mesh, control plane/data plane architectures, NGINX, HAProxy, SDN, eBPF, rate limiting, bot management, abuse prevention, PoP design, caching, globally distributed environments, open-source contributions, patents, or external technical leadership.
About eBay
eBay operates a global online marketplace where individuals and businesses buy and sell goods via auctions and fixed‑price listings. It generates revenue from transaction fees, advertising, and payment processing on its managed marketplace. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in San Jose, it is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ and serves buyers and sellers in over 190 markets.