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We are looking for an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead the engineering team responsible for our Unified Data Platform , a foundational platform supporting large-scale data processing, analytics, search, and data-driven applications across the company.

The team owns critical platform capabilities including Hadoop, ETL and data processing platforms, Elasticsearch, Apache Airflow, and Data Lake Studio .

In this role, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for building, operating, and evolving highly scalable and reliable data infrastructure. You will define technical and organizational priorities, drive platform strategy and execution, and partner with engineering teams across the company to provide productive, reliable, and easy-to-use data platform capabilities.

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software and platform engineers responsible for business-critical data infrastructure.

Recruit, develop, and retain strong engineering talent through coaching, career development, and performance management.

Partner with senior engineers and architects to drive technical direction and long-term platform evolution.

Own the strategy, architecture, roadmap, and execution for the Unified Data Platform, including:Hadoop Platform – large-scale distributed storage and data processing infrastructure.ETL Platform – scalable infrastructure and frameworks for production data pipelines.Elasticsearch Platform – large-scale search, indexing, and data-serving infrastructure.Data Lake Studio – developer-facing tools and experiences for data development, discovery, processing,



and analytics.

Drive platform standardization and integration to provide a consistent experience across storage, compute, data processing, orchestration, and developer tooling.

Drive architectural evolution to support increasing scale, workload diversity, reliability, and business requirements.

Ensure scalability, availability, performance, security, and operational excellence across mission-critical platforms.

Establish and track platform SLAs/SLOs and engineering metrics around reliability, performance, capacity, adoption, and efficiency.

Lead technical reviews and post-incident analysis for significant platform issues and drive systemic improvements.

Partner with data engineering, analytics, infrastructure, security, and application teams to understand requirements and establish platform priorities.

Communicate platform strategy, priorities, technical trade-offs, risks, and progress to engineering leadership and stakeholders.

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

- 7+ years software engineering experience, including engineering management or technical leadership experience.
- 5+ years experience building and operating large-scale platform, infrastructure, distributed systems, or data infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, platform architecture, scalability, reliability, and production operations.
- Experience leading teams responsible for highly available, large-scale production platforms or infrastructure.




- Experience defining technical strategy and driving complex, multi-quarter engineering initiatives involving multiple systems and teams.
- Strong engineering judgment with the ability to evaluate architecture, technical trade-offs, operational risks, and long-term platform investments.
- Experience leading teams responsible for large-scale data platforms, infrastructure platforms, distributed systems, or developer platforms.

Experience with technologies in areas such as distributed storage and compute, data processing, workflow orchestration, search infrastructure, or data engineering platforms.

Experience building internal platforms and self-service infrastructure used by large engineering organizations.

Experience modernizing large-scale infrastructure while maintaining production reliability.

Experience driving improvements in platform scalability, reliability, developer productivity, and infrastructure efficiency.

Ability to operate effectively across deep technical discussions, people leadership, organizational planning, and long-term platform strategy.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at [HIDDEN TEXT]. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.

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