Traffic Software Engineer

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About the team and role:

eBay’s traffic engineering team is responsible for building and managing platforms that currently handle all of eBay public and private site traffic.

What you will accomplish:

Collaborate with multi-functional engineering teams to deliver the platform and contribute to open-source projects.

Work on building a very resilient distributed system at eBay’s edges that can proxy all eBay traffic and also eBay’s service mesh for all of our services with unparalleled observability.

Lead other developers in different phases of system development.

Build and debug large scale distributed systems and help with observability and monitoring of the system.

Contribute your knowledge and experience of the networking topology (TCP and HTTP stack) to solve any network related issues encountered by the system, deploying and troubleshooting large scale infrastructure.

What you will bring:

• Hands-on lead development experience with strong analytical skills, a person who can be a technical lead.

• Familiarity and proven understanding of networking technologies like BGP, anycast is a must, experience with TCP/IP networking and familiarity with TCP, SSL and HTTP Protocols.

• Hands-on experience with various programming languages like C/C++, GoLang, Python to build the system and also build automation around it for better observability and remediation, any experience with kernel programming and experience with Python, Javascript and Java is a plus!

• Distributed systems with design and implementation of network communication

• Multi-threaded programming: Telemetry infrastructure to accumulate and export statistical information.

• Excellent debugging and triaging skills and strong expertise in agile development.

• Familiarity with ISTIO, Envoy is a plus.

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The pay range for this position at commencement of employment in California, Washington, or New York is expected in the range below.

$135,200 - $205,700

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a 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). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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