Senior Data Engineer, Ads Data Platform

This role is for a Senior Data Engineer on the Ads Data Platform team at eBay, reporting to the Director, Ads Data & Tooling. The platform provides near real-time performance data and insights to eBay's active sellers using advertising products, crucial for growing eBay's nearly $2B Ads Business. The engineer will craft a platform for sellers to measure campaign performance, build scalable applications, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to redefine the advertising space.

Must Have

• Broad understanding of Computer Science
• Strong experience with JVM languages like Java, Kotlin and Scala
• Experience with big data technologies like Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, and ClickHouse
• Demonstrated experience partnering with Engineering and Product teams

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About the team and the role:

Reporting to the Director, Ads Data & Tooling, you will work on the Data Platform that provides Near Real Time Performance Data and Insights to the large portion of eBay’s 18 million active sellers who use advertising products, including Promoted Listings, Promoted Stores, and Promoted Offsite, and plays a critical role in growing eBay’s nearly $2B Ads Business.

What you will accomplish:

• Craft a platform for eBay sellers and advertisers to measure, in near real time, the performance of their advertising campaigns, and improve sales
• Build highly available, scalable software applications while maintaining a cadence of building, testing, and deploying code in a continuous manner
• Work closely with designers, product managers, data analysts, and other specialists (frontend, backend, machine learning) to redefine the advertising space for eBay and beyond.
• Operate within eBay’s internal open-source community where a variety of projects and codebases are shared.
• Lead by example and share knowledge with the team, contributing to technical conversations and debates, and deciding upon approaches and tools to use.

What you will bring:

• Broad understanding of Computer Science and well developed ability to grasp, simplify, articulate, communicate and publish complex arguments
• Strong experience with JVM languages like Java, Kotlin and Scala
• Experience with big data technologies like Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, and ClickHouse
• Demostrated experience partnering with Engineering and Product teams

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