Senior Software Engineer

About the TeamThe Developer Platform, Productivity & Experience Engineering team designs, builds, and operates eBay’s Internal Developer Platform (IDP), powering software delivery across the company.Our platforms enable thousands of engineers to build, test, and release software reliably at scale. Core areas include Continuous Delivery, Testing platforms, Developer Productivity systems, and Engineering Intelligence.About the RoleWe are hiring Senior Platform Engineers to strengthen and scale eBay’s CI/CD infrastructure, including Jenkins, Tekton, plugin ecosystems, telemetry, monitoring, dashboards, and underlying storage systems across development and production environments.This role will establish strong regional engineering ownership, improve reliability, and drive modernization across our CI/CD, compute, and storage infrastructure.You will design, build, and operate resilient CI/CD systems and distributed services that power thousands of pipelines daily.What You’ll DoBuild, operate, and scale CI/CD infrastructure (Jenkins, Tekton)Design and manage plugin infrastructure and lifecycle processesDevelop microservices (Java / Spring Boot) for CI/CD orchestration and platform capabilitiesArchitect and enhance distributed systems to improve pipeline scalability and reliabilityDesign and manage file systems and storage infrastructure supporting build artifacts, caching, logs, and pipeline dataImplement telemetry, monitoring, and observability across CI/CD and storage systemsBuild dashboards and operational insights for pipeline health and performanceImprove pipeline efficiency and reduce systemic failure ratesDrive automation, modernization, and standardization across environmentsCollaborate with global teams to ensure high availability and operational excellenceWhat You’ll BringStrong experience operating Jenkins at scale (masters, agents, plugins, upgrades, performance tuning)Hands-on experience with Tekton or cloud-native pipeline orchestrationProven experience developing microservices using Java / Spring BootStrong background in distributed systems design and distributed computingExperience with Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructureSolid understanding of file systems, storage architectures, artifact storage, and performance optimizationStrong automation and scripting skills (Python preferred)Experience building telemetry, monitoring, and observability systemsStrong debugging, performance tuning, and reliability engineering skillsHigh ownership mindset with the ability to operate critical production systemsRole ClarificationThis is a hands-on, coding-focused Platform Engineering role centered on designing, building, and operating CI/CD, distributed systems, and storage infrastructure at scale.It is not a DevOps-only, support-only, or operations-only role. Engineers on this team own systems end-to-end — architecture, development, automation, and reliability.