Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Incident Leader

eBay; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

eBay in Dublin, Ireland, seeks an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Technical Duty Officer) to protect the availability, stability and resilience of our production systems. The TDO leads incident triage, coordinates responders, and drives restoration during outages, strengthening eBay's reliability posture.

You will partner across engineering, architecture, SRE, and operations, own incidents from detection to postmortem, and coach teams on recovery strategies, monitoring, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years in site reliability engineering, production operations, incident management, systems administration, or infrastructure engineering.
• Experience supporting highly scaled internet or platform environments across infrastructure, compute, networking, storage, databases, DNS, and HA concepts.
• Proficiency in building automation with Go, Python, Java, Node.js, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical response during high-priority incidents, including severity assessment, customer impact, direction setting, coordination of responders, and restoration.
• Maintain awareness of health metrics for critical services and business indicators, identifying risks early and driving action.
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point on shift, guiding mitigation, recovery, and prioritization during live-site events.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, SRE, and operations to improve availability through better monitoring, automation, and tooling.
• Document incidents clearly, manage stakeholder communications, support emergency changes, oversee maintenance, and drive continuous improvement efforts such as drills and postmortems.

Skills

Incident leadership

Communication

Go

Python

Java

Node.js

Docker

Kubernetes

SRE

Ownership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

eBay in Dublin, Ireland, seeks an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Technical Duty Officer) to protect the availability, stability and resilience of our production systems. The TDO leads incident triage, coordinates responders, and drives restoration during outages, strengthening eBay's reliability posture.

You will partner across engineering, architecture, SRE, and operations, own incidents from detection to postmortem, and coach teams on recovery strategies, monitoring, and