Search Infrastructure & Data Engineer

Looking for a company that inspires passion, courage and creativity, where you can be on the team shaping the future of global commerce? Want to shape how millions of people buy, sell, connect, and share around the world? If youre interested in joining a purpose driven community that is dedicated to crafting an ambitious and inclusive work environment, join eBay a company you can be proud to be with.

Are you curious how a search engine at such scale even works to serve results in the low millisecond latency range, given billions of items to consider? Do you thrive on pushing the scale boundaries with Big Data workflows? Do you get excited thinking of building infrastructure with the latest open source stack using technologies such as Spark/Hadoop, Apache Airflow, Elasticsearch, NoSQL, Kubernetes, docker and more?

We are passionate about building next gen infrastructure supporting various data science teams (eg. Query Understanding, Core Ranking, Knowledge Graph, Autocomplete) and the entire search platform of the worlds largest online marketplace. We are looking for passionate software engineers to join the eBay Search Science Infrastructure and Data Engineering team.
Responsibilities include:

Design and implement systems, infrastructures, and big data workflows to support the various data science teams at eBay as well as contributing to advancing the broader platforms of eBay Search and even beyond to all of eBay. As a member of the Search Science Infrastructure and Data Engineering team, there are a variety of interesting technical areas to work ranging from Spark/Scala or PySpark development, through to Airflow workflow development, CI/CD, batch and stream workflows, data quality and data deployment related initiatives, and more.

BS/MS in Computer Science or related discipline with experience in the areas of big data processing, data engineering, workflow orchestration, online services

Experience in some of: Python, Spark, Scala, Hadoop, Java, Docker, Linux, shell scripting, Git, SQL

Desirable to have experience in: Airflow, NoSQL, Kafka, Jenkins, Elasticsearch, REST API

Desirable to have large scale data-driven systems experience, and/or online services experience

Desirable to have an understanding of information retrieval systems, online search processing, and machine learning

Experience in object-oriented design methodology

Minimum of 3 years relevant industry experience desired


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