Senior Software Engineer – Cloud-Native Distributed Database & Storage Engine
Location: India
Team: Database Platform, eBay

About the Role
Are you passionate about building large-scale distributed database systems?
At eBay, we're building a cloud-native, distributed database with disaggregated compute and storage, designed to deliver high performance, scalability, and high availability at hyperscale.
We're looking for experienced database and distributed systems engineers to join our team and help design and build the next generation of eBay's database platform, powering mission-critical workloads for millions of buyers and sellers worldwide.
This is an chance to work on challenging problems in database internals, distributed storage, transaction processing, replication, fault tolerance, and performance engineering, while shaping the architecture of a critical infrastructure platform.
We welcome engineers with deep systems-level development experience, including those from database engine teams, distributed storage platforms, and storage technology companies such as Dell EMC,



NetApp, or similar organizations.

What You'll Do
• Build a cloud-native distributed database: Design and develop core database components with a disaggregated compute and storage architecture, supporting independent scaling, high availability, and fault tolerance.
• Engineer database internals: Work on PostgreSQL internals, including storage and buffer management, WAL, MVCC, transaction processing, concurrency control, and query execution.
• Solve distributed systems challenges: Design and implement replication, consistency, crash recovery, failover, and distributed coordination mechanisms.
• Drive performance and scalability: Profile, benchmark, and optimize critical database paths, including storage I/O, memory management, transaction throughput, and query latency.
• Own complex systems end to end: Lead the design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production operation of critic

📌 Database Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Ebay
📍 Bengaluru