Senior Go Engineer, Observability Platform

Ebay; California; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

eBay is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build high-performance distributed systems in Golang powering our observability platform across metrics, logs, and traces. You will collaborate with SREs and platform teams to deliver reliable backend services at scale.

You will contribute to architecture reviews, production readiness, and on-call reliability, while expanding your expertise with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, and Grafana in a cloud-native environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, backend infrastructure, or distributed systems engineering.
• Strong hands-on programming expertise in Golang.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts including scalability, concurrency, fault tolerance, performance optimization, and system reliability.
• Experience designing, building, and operating production services in Kubernetes or similar cloud-native environments.
• Strong knowledge of observability concepts including metrics, logs, traces, telemetry pipelines, and production monitoring.
• Experience with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Grafana, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with high-throughput data pipelines, time-series systems, and large-scale microservices environments.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across software engineering, SRE, and platform teams to solve complex production challenges.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable, fault-tolerant backend services in Golang for eBay's observability platform.
• Develop high-throughput systems for ingesting, redefining, storing, and querying telemetry data across logs, metrics, and traces.
• Improve the performance, reliability, and maintainability of distributed systems that support hyperscale observability workloads.
• Strengthen Kubernetes-based production systems through resilient service design, self-healing patterns, autoscaling, and operational excellence.
• Partner with SREs, platform teams, and service owners to translate observability needs into robust platform capabilities and developer-friendly tools.
• Contribute to architecture reviews, production readiness efforts, and post-incident improvements that raise the reliability bar across the platform.
• Help evolve engineering standards, code quality, and best practices for Go-based services running in cloud-native environments.
• Expand your technical breadth by working across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, open-source observability tooling, and platform engineering.

Skills

Golang

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Kubernetes

Observability

Telemetry

Tools

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

ClickHouse

Grafana

Job description

eBay is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build high-performance distributed systems in Golang powering our observability platform across metrics, logs, and traces. You will collaborate with SREs and platform teams to deliver reliable backend services at scale.

You will contribute to architecture reviews, production readiness, and on-call reliability, while expanding your expertise with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, and Grafana in a cloud-native environment.