Member of Technical Staff II

eBay; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

eBay in Bengaluru, India seeks a Senior Data Platform Architect with 10+ years in distributed systems to lead large-scale design and delivery of data platforms. The role emphasizes ingestion, streaming, lakehouse/warehouse, catalog, governance, and security, with strong emphasis on architectural excellence.

You will collaborate across product, infra, and analytics teams to ensure scalable solutions, while driving observability, incident response, and cost-conscious design.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, focused on distributed systems or data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver major components of eBay's data platforms from design through production rollout.
• Design and evolve distributed systems powering ingestion, streaming, lakehouse/warehouse, catalog, and governance.
• Contribute to long-term architecture through design reviews and architecture design documents.
• Build systems balancing latency, correctness, and cost while ensuring security and compliance.
• Drive operational excellence for services including observability and incident response.
• Collaborate across product, infra, and analytics teams to align execution with business needs.
• Learn and grow in governance, orchestration, and privacy engineering.

Skills

Distributed systems

Architectural design

Communication

Growth mindset

Algorithms

Education

BS/MS in CS or equivalent

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Spark

Delta/Iceberg

Kubernetes

NoSQL/columnar stores

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Own and deliver major components of eBay's data platforms from design through production rollout.
• Design and evolve distributed systems powering ingestion, streaming, lakehouse/warehouse, catalog, and governance.
• Contribute to long-term architecture through design reviews and authoring architecture design documents, ensuring scalability and resilience.
• Build systems that balance latency, correctness, and cost while ensuring security and compliance.
• Drive operational excellence for services you own, including observability and incident response.
• Collaborate across product, infra, and analytics teams to align execution with business needs.
• Learn and grow in areas like governance, orchestration, and privacy engineering.

Requirements:

• Experience designing large-scale distributed systems (compute, storage, APIs, streaming).
• Ability to independently deliver complex projects from requirements to production.
• Systems thinker who anticipates bottlenecks, schema evolution, and reliability issues.
• Strong communication skills to influence cross-team technical outcomes.
• Growth mindset with curiosity to learn new technologies.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, primarily in distributed systems or data platforms.
• Proven ability to design and deliver critical systems with impact.
• Proficiency in Java/Python, CI/CD, and containerized environments.
• Hands-on expertise in tools like Kafka/Flink, Spark, Delta/Iceberg, Kubernetes, and NoSQL/columnar stores.
• Experience with streaming and batch data platforms.
• Strong foundation in algorithms and distributed design.
• BS/MS in CS or equivalent experience.