Senior GitHub Enterprise Platform Engineer

Devopsroles; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

eBay is seeking a Senior GitHub Enterprise Platform Engineer to lead the reliability, security, and usability of the GitHub Enterprise ecosystem. You will own platform standards, automate workflows, and enable scalable collaboration across thousands of engineers—partnering with Identity and Security teams to enforce access controls and governance.

This individual contributor role offers broad influence across engineering, security, product, and infrastructure teams and aims to improve developer

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering in a large-scale environment.
• Deep experience coordinating GitHub Enterprise Server and/or GitHub Enterprise Cloud at scale, including repository and organization management, security controls, auditability, runners, and integrations.
• Strong programming or scripting skills in Python, Java, or similar languages, with experience using REST/GraphQL APIs, webhooks, and infrastructure-as-code to automate platform operations.
• Experience integrating GitHub with CI/CD, artifact, and quality or security tooling such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube, or similar platforms.
• Solid understanding of identity and access management concepts including SSO, SAML, SCIM, RBAC, and least-privilege access, and how to apply them to developer collaboration platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve eBay’s GitHub Enterprise platform to deliver a highly available, secure, and scalable experience for thousands of engineers.
• Define and implement platform standards for repositories, branching, code review, and policy enforcement that improve engineering velocity while supporting security and compliance goals.
• Partner closely with Identity and Security teams to strengthen access management through SSO, SCIM, and role-based controls, enabling scalable, auditable, and least-privilege access.
• Build automation, APIs, bots, and tools guided by rules that simplify onboarding, repository lifecycle management, and fleet-wide platform changes.
• Improve platform reliability by implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, and root-causes analysis across GitHub Enterprise Server and its underlying database systems.
• Lead upgrades, migrations, and multi-functional platform improvements while advising engineering teams on standard methodologies through documentation, consultation, and enablement.

Skills

GitHub Enterprise

Python/Java

REST/GraphQL

CI/CD integration

RBAC/SAML/SSO

Problem solving

Tools

GitHub Enterprise Server

GitHub Enterprise Cloud

Jenkins

Artifactory

SonarQube

Job description

eBay is seeking a Senior GitHub Enterprise Platform Engineer to lead the reliability, security, and usability of the GitHub Enterprise ecosystem. You will own platform standards, automate workflows, and enable scalable collaboration across thousands of engineers—partnering with Identity and Security teams to enforce access controls and governance.

This individual contributor role offers broad influence across engineering, security, product, and infrastructure teams and aims to improve developer