Software Architect

At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.

Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.

Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

• Passion and commitment for technical excellence with overall 9+ yrs experience.
• BE/Mtech in Computer Science or an equivalent professional experience
• 6+ years of software design, architecture, and development experience, tackling complex problems in backend services and / or data pipelines
• Solid foundation in Data Structures, Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, and Software Design 
• Architectural expertise in production-grade systems using Java,, opensearch, microsroservice, springboot, kafka, kibana, SQL, kunetetes, caches
• Hands-on experience with OpenSearch/Elasticsearch.
• Deep understanding of Kafka (producers/consumers, schema evolution, partitions, consumer groups, compaction, DLQs).
• Solid foundation in distributed systems: consistency, fault tolerance, retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
• Practical expertise with RESTful service design, API security (OAuth, mTLS), and backward-compatible evolution.
• Production experience with CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions/Jenkins), containers (Docker), Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code (Helm/Terraform).

Data engineering

• Design and build data pipelines
• Programming Experience in Java/Scala. Strong in SQL/NoSQL exposure to  atleast one cloud.
• Develop batch and streaming ETL/ELT processes to ingest data from diverse sources (APIs, databases, files, event streams).
• Use SQL, Opmitize Spark pipelines, transform raw data into clean, standardized, and query-ready datasets.
• Build reusable data marts and feature sets for downstream teams (analytics, ML, product).
• Tune queries, partitioning, clustering, indexing, and storage formats (Parquet/ORC).
• Optimize compute and storage costs, manage scaling strategies, and right-size resources
• Implement CI/CD for data code and pipelines; manage environments and releases.
• Develop internal tooling and frameworks to improve developer productivity.
• Real-time and event-driven architectures
• Build and maintain streaming pipelines (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, Flink, Spark Structured Streaming).
• Design schemas and contracts for event data; ensure exactly-once/at-least-once semantics where needed.
• Good experience in DW, Data lake, orchestration tools like Airflow.
• Translate business needs into technical specs; document datasets, SLAs, and usage guidelines.

• • Support incident response and root-cause analysis for data quality issue.

Nice to Have : Scala/Kotlin/Python experience and ML exposure

Additional Details

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