Principal Software Engineer

November 6

🏄 California – Remote

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🤠 Texas – Remote

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💵 $180.8k - $311.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

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eCommerce • B2C • Marketplace

eBay is a global eCommerce marketplace that allows individuals and businesses to buy and sell a wide variety of goods and services online. Founded in 1995, eBay provides a platform for auction-style sales as well as fixed-price listings, making it a go-to destination for shoppers looking for unique items. Its commitment to user experience includes features that enhance browsing, personalization of content, and seller tools to improve their market presence.

10,000+ employees

Founded 1995

🛍️ eCommerce

👥 B2C

🏪 Marketplace

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2022-11

📋 Description

• Lead architectural vision for various software systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability in a high-traffic, distributed environment • Define, design, and implement the technical strategy for backend infrastructure, identifying key innovations, technologies, and tools that will drive platform evolution • Mentor and guide senior engineers and teams across the organization, driving alignment with established standards in system architecture, code quality, and operational excellence • Work closely with leadership and multi-functional teams to translate business needs into a long-term technical roadmap that supports new product features and growth • Collaborate across engineering disciplines to solve technical challenges related to performance, data consistency, and high availability • Drive the adoption of standard processes in backend engineering, including microservices architecture, data architecture, reusable software artifacts, CI/CD pipelines • Influence org-wide technical decisions and collaborate with senior technical leaders to drive the evolution of the technical ecosystem across multiple product categories • Lead technical deep dives and complex design reviews, ensuring architectural choices meet scalability, security, and performance requirements • Foster a culture of innovation, encouraging teams to explore new technologies, design patterns, and architectures that can improve the efficiency and scalability of the platform • Serve as a technical advisor in discussions with partners, vendors, and other eBay communities to drive innovation and partnerships.

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on large-scale, distributed backend systems • Proven experience designing and building complex systems at massive scale, ideally within e-commerce or other high-traffic environments • Expertise in distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures • Deep understanding of high-performance databases (SQL, NoSQL), caching strategies, and data replication techniques • Solid understanding and hands-on experience in building scalable systems and performance tuning for high-traffic, critical applications • Experience working with Java, Kotlin, and deep familiarity with system-level design principles • Track record of leading multi-functional projects, aligning teams around complex technical initiatives that impact the entire company • Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers at all levels, provide strategic technical leadership, and influence organizational direction • Exceptional problem-solving skills with a focus on innovation, scalability, and performance optimization • Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical partners at all levels of the organization.

🏖️ Benefits

• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits such as PTO and parental leave • Target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable)