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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.
About the team and the roleAds Engineering builds the platforms, services, APIs, and seller experiences that power advertising on eBay, including campaign workflows, dashboards and reporting, public APIs, selling flows, and foundational systems that help sellers and advertisers grow their businesses.
MarTech Engineering develops the platforms and capabilities that drive customer marketing and lifecycle engagement across eBay, including customer marketing platforms, performance marketing, marketing implementation systems, and the technical foundations that support personalized, measurable, and scalable customer engagement.
Together, these teams build products, platforms, and workflows crafted to support sellers in growing their businesses. They also enable advertisers to meet their goals and connect customers to the right inventory at the right time. Their work spans frontend applications, backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and modern engineering practices, in close partnership with Product, Development, Analytics, Applied Science, and program leadership.
As a senior engineering leader, you will participate in architecture discussions, review production code, influence platform strategy, and help engineering teams navigate complex technical challenges while promoting a high-performance engineering culture. You will lead teams responsible for building and evolving critical platforms that power experiences for millions of users globally.
What you will accomplishOwn the build, evolution, and long-term health of highly scalable systems and distributed platforms that support advertising and customer marketing experiences across eBay.
Stay actively involved in architecture reviews, technical decision-making, build reviews, and critical code paths to help teams deliver durable, high-quality solutions.
Drive platform modernization, including migration from monolithic systems to cloud-native microservices architectures that improve scalability, reliability, and developer agility.
Partner closely with architects, product leaders, and engineering teams to define technology strategy, influence roadmaps, and lead large-scale platform transformations.
Champion engineering excellence through code quality, performance optimization, observability, resiliency, operational excellence, and modern developer productivity practices.
Build, guide, and develop high-performing engineering teams across multiple geographies and time zones while fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, continuous learning, and customer focus.
10+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record of leading high-performing engineering teams and delivering large-scale platforms.
Deep hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and modern data technologies.
Proven success building and scaling high-throughput, low-latency systems that serve millions of customers with strong architectural depth in scalability, resiliency, observability, and performance engineering.
A strong passion for technology, with the ability to dive into code, influence technical decisions, and raise the bar on engineering quality and execution.
Experience with AI- and ML-powered platform capabilities, along with familiarity with modern developer productivity practices such as AI-assisted software development, engineering efficiency improvements, and continuous delivery.
Experience in Ads, MarTech, ecommerce, fintech, or other large-scale customer-facing product and platform organizations; a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience, is preferred.
Additional Details
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams
- Experience delivering large-scale platforms
- Deep hands-on expertise in Java
- Deep hands-on expertise in Spring Boot
- Experience with microservices and distributed systems
- Experience with event-driven architectures
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience with modern data technologies
- Experience building high-throughput, low-latency systems serving millions of customers
- Strong architecture expertise in scalability, resiliency, observability, and performance engineering
- Ability to participate in code reviews and influence technical decisions
- Experience with AI- and ML-powered platform capabilities
- Experience with modern developer productivity practices, including AI-assisted development and continuous delivery
- Experience in Ads, MarTech, ecommerce, fintech, or other large-scale customer-facing product and platform organizations
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
eBay Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about eBay and has not been reviewed or approved by eBay.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage begin on the date of hire, complemented by mental health resources, an EAP, disability coverage, FSAs, and wellness initiatives.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — A robust mix of PTO, paid holidays, flexible work styles, parental leave, and a four‑week paid sabbatical after five years supports work‑life balance.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Total compensation commonly includes stock components, with access to an employee stock purchase plan at a discount and stock awards enhancing overall packages.
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What We Do
eBay Inc. is a global commerce leader that connects millions of buyers and sellers around the world. We exist to enable economic opportunity for individuals, entrepreneurs, businesses and organizations of all sizes. Our portfolio of brands includes eBay Marketplace and eBay Classifieds Group, operating in 190 markets around the world. We offer sellers the ability to grow a business with little barrier to entry regardless of size, background or geographic location. We never compete with our sellers. We win when our sellers succeed. Buyers who shop on our Marketplace and Classifieds platforms enjoy a highly personalized experience with an unparalleled selection at great value.








