Traffic Software Engineer - Recent Grad

eBay; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

eBay in Austin, TX is seeking a Software Engineer - Recent Grad (Traffic) to design, build, and operate traffic management and routing systems that improve availability, performance, and network security. You’ll contribute to high-performance, low-latency architecture development and work with modern infrastructure (including Kubernetes) to support reliable services at scale.

You will collaborate with SRE, platform, and application teams to integrate traffic and networking solutions safely,

Qualifications

• Graduate of a full-time accredited Masters degree program within the United States. Graduated no earlier than Fall/Winter 2025 or Spring/Summer 2026. We are currently only considering Masters candidates for this role.
• Programming: Proficiency in Java, C++, or Go (data structures, concurrency basics, debugging).
• Understanding of/Experience with Networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, load balancing, TLS fundamentals.
• Systems fundamentals: Understanding of Linux and distributed systems basics.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop traffic solutions: Build and maintain services/tools to manage and optimize traffic flow using Java, C++, or Go.
• Optimize network security: Implement and improve secure traffic patterns and controls (e.g., secure service communication, safe routing, hardening, policy enforcement).
• Manage scalability on Kubernetes: Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot services running on Kubernetes across distributed environments.
• Develop high-performance, low-latency architectures: Improve latency and throughput through efficient design, profiling, and performance tuning.
• Monitoring and incident support: Use logs/metrics/traces to debug production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and drive reliability improvements.
• Multi-functional collaboration: Partner with SRE, platform, and application teams to integrate traffic and networking solutions cleanly and safely.

Skills

Java

C++

Go

Education

Master's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Envoy

NGINX

HAProxy

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

eBay in Austin, TX is seeking a Software Engineer - Recent Grad (Traffic) to design, build, and operate traffic management and routing systems that improve availability, performance, and network security. You’ll contribute to high-performance, low-latency architecture development and work with modern infrastructure (including Kubernetes) to support reliable services at scale.

You will collaborate with SRE, platform, and application teams to integrate traffic and networking solutions safely,