Software Engineer, Distributed Databases

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science plus 8+ years of experience or MS in Computer Science plus 6+ years of hands-on experience in building large-scale distributed systems
• Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures and algorithms
• Experience in architecting, designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software systems, storage and databases
• Extensive hands-on experience and expertise in Object-Oriented Design, Distributed Programming, and: C++, Java and various database systems (NoSQL and relational) at scale
• Drive architecture discussions, produce well-documented design docs, and participate in design and code reviews
• Ensure code quality and maintainability by evolving architecture and tech stack, refactoring, standards and improving build and test systems
• Share engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an always-on 24x7 site

What You'll Be Doing:

• Building and managing massively scalable database and storage systems for eBay
• Collaborating with peers to design data infrastructure
• Working in an agile environment with a focus on problem solving and engineering precision
• Developing innovative solutions to meet functional and non-functional standards
• Guiding junior and senior engineers in building scalable, high-speed distributed systems
• Contributing to design, development, testing, release, triage, bug fix, and documentation cycles
• Bringing in new ideas to adapt to technological developments and industry best practices