10 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own and drive major technical initiatives for eBay’s distributed database platforms.
- Design, implement, test, deploy, and operate critical database components and capabilities.
- Solve complex problems involving storage, transactions, replication, consensus, geo-distribution, concurrency, scalability, availability, and performance.
- Contribute to architecture, technical tradeoffs, design reviews, code reviews, prototyping, benchmarking, and production support.
- Diagnose difficult production issues across software, storage, networking, and distributed-system boundaries and drive long-term resolution.
- Mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, and promote strong practices in architecture, code quality, testing, observability, automation, and operational readiness.
- Partner with architects, engineers, product managers, engineering leaders, customers, and globally distributed teams to translate workloads and requirements into platform solutions.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and open-source solutions and communicate technical designs and decisions clearly.
- Use AI coding agents to deliver production-quality software and improve engineering velocity while maintaining quality and maintainability.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field with 10+ years of experience, or a PhD with equivalent experience building large-scale distributed systems.
- Significant hands-on experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed databases, storage systems, or data infrastructure.
- Strong expertise in distributed systems and database architecture, including consensus, replication, consistency models, partitioning, fault tolerance, high availability, and geo-distribution.
- Strong knowledge of database internals, including storage and buffer management, write-ahead logging, multi-version concurrency control, lock management, query planning and execution, indexing, and database engines.
- Expertise in transaction management, isolation levels, concurrency control, deadlock detection, crash recovery, replication, and high-availability or failover strategies.
- Understanding of distributed-system failure modes, network partitions, partial failures, RAFT/PAXOS, and availability, consistency, and performance tradeoffs.
- Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, networking, operating systems, and software architecture.
- Advanced programming experience in C++, Java, Python, Scala, or equivalent languages.
- Experience with object-oriented design, distributed programming, and large-scale relational or NoSQL database systems.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and modern infrastructure or cloud-native environments.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, ownership of complex initiatives, architectural decision-making, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration.
- Ability to write high-quality architecture and design documents, build consensus, and communicate effectively across globally distributed teams.
- Experience building production-grade software with AI coding agents and providing them with appropriate context, specifications, constraints, and validation criteria.
- Hands-on experience delivering production software using AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar tools.
- Ability to collaborate across teams and locations including Bengaluru, the U.S., China, and Ireland.
Benefits
- The role is based in Bengaluru and collaborates with teams in the U.S., China, and Ireland.
- eBay is an equal opportunity employer and provides accessibility accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
- eBay provides information about its accessibility statement, Talent Privacy Notice, Privacy Center, and AI Hiring Guidelines.
About TCGplayer
TCGplayer operates an online marketplace and software tools for buying and selling trading card games and related collectibles, serving hobby shops and individual sellers. It generates revenue through marketplace fees, seller subscriptions, and fulfillment programs such as TCGplayer Direct. An eBay subsidiary, the company provides authentication and logistics services that help stores list inventory at scale and reach buyers across the U.S. and internationally.