Software Engineer

Requirements

• MS/PhD in Computer Science or related area with 3+ years of relevant work experience (or BS/BA with 5+ years) in Software Engineering
• Experience in production engineering practices and software development in an OO language (Scala, Java, etc.) and large scale distributed systems in an industrial setting
• Experience with using cloud services, big data pipelines (Hadoop, Kafka, etc.) and databases (document store, key-value store, etc.)

Nice to Haves

• Experience in Python for ML pipelines is a plus
• Experience in industrial recommender systems or search technology is a plus
• Previous publications experience with academic papers, patents/IP, or technical blogs is a plus

What You'll Be Doing

• Drive engineering delivery of recommendations experiences and agentic workflows on a variety of surfaces at eBay
• Work with a team of applied researchers and engineers with deep expertise in natural language processing, computer vision, large language models / AI / agentic workflows, recommender systems, and ML production engineering
• Influence how people will interact with recommender systems in the future, and how recommender systems technology will evolve
• Work with large scale distributed systems serving real-time and near-real time traffic, distributed data stores, billions of impressions per day, and low latency SLA requirements
• Develop and deploy state of the art AI models
• Develop and deploy big data technology and large scale data pipelines
• Drive marketplace GMB through iterative A/B testing

Perks and Benefits

• Opportunity to work on cutting edge technologies in a global ecommerce leader
• Collaborate with passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers
• Contribute to creating economic opportunity for all through connecting people and building communities