Senior Data Engineer, Data Platform & Governance

eBay; Oregon (WI); On-site; USD 136,000 - 228,600; Full time

Job summary

eBay's TCGplayer team is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead data systems across warehouse and application-facing platforms. You will shape technical direction, collaborate with analytics, engineering, and platform teams, and raise governance and data quality standards.

This senior role emphasizes Snowflake governance, Postgres design, scalable datastores, and secure data movement, with opportunities to influence across the organization and improve reliability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience designing, improving, or supporting production platforms across data warehousing, operational datastores, distributed systems, or data architecture.
• Hands-on Snowflake experience in production environments, including governance, access controls, security, observability, performance, reliability, and cost management.
• Strong experience with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL, including schema design, indexing, query optimization, transactions, scaling, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience guiding datastore and architecture decisions across technologies such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Snowflake, and similar platforms.
• Experience with microservices and event-driven systems (Kafka and Debezium preferred), including retries, idempotency, ordering, and change data capture.
• Strong communication and technical judgment, with a track record of influencing across teams and improving reliability, testing, governance, observability, or engineering practices in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead data systems architecture and set engineering direction across warehouse and application-facing platforms.
• Strengthen Snowflake governance, access controls, security, observability, and cost management.
• Improve validation and testing of data-related changes across distributed environments across warehouse, services, and application-facing platforms.
• Guide datastore and architecture decisions across operational and warehouse systems, focusing on reliability, scale, maintainability, and product needs.
• Lead cross-application datastore initiatives, including migrations and platform upgrades, with emphasis on security and governance.
• Partner with application and platform teams to clarify data ownership, service boundaries, and data movement across transactional products, microservices, and event-driven systems.

Skills

Data warehousing

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

Kafka

Debezium

Reliability

Communication

Data governance

Tools

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

Kafka

Debezium

Job description

eBay's TCGplayer team is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead data systems across warehouse and application-facing platforms. You will shape technical direction, collaborate with analytics, engineering, and platform teams, and raise governance and data quality standards.

This senior role emphasizes Snowflake governance, Postgres design, scalable datastores, and secure data movement, with opportunities to influence across the organization and improve reliability.