Senior Software Engineer - Golang

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

At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader - we're changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We're committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.

Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work - every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.

Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers - and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

About the team and the role

The Observability Platform team builds and operates the infrastructure that helps eBay teams monitor, troubleshoot, and improve the reliability of large-scale distributed systems. The platform supports the telemetry and reliability needs of thousands of microservices across eBay and operates at hyperscale, processing billions of time series and petabytes of log data using modern open-source technologies such as Prometheus, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, and related tools.

The Role:

As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will design and build high-performance distributed systems in Golang that power eBay's observability platform across metrics, logs, traces, and related workflows. You will work across the full telemetry lifecycle-from ingestion and processing to storage, query, and platform services-building reliable backend systems that operate at massive scale.

You will partner closely with SREs, platform engineers, and service owners to solve complex reliability challenges, improve operational excellence, and help shape the future of observability at eBay. This role offers the opportunity to work on business-critical infrastructure, contribute to open-source technologies, and grow through direct exposure to some of eBay's most complex engineering problems. This role also includes participation in the team's on-call rotation in support of production reliability.

What you will accomplish

• 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

What you will bring

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, backend infrastructure, or distributed systems engineering
• Strong hands-on programming expertise in Golang, with a proven track record of building reliable, scalable backend or infrastructure services
• 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 technologies such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Grafana, or similar observability and data infrastructure 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