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Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

Location: Remote (United States)

About the team and the role: 

TCGplayer connects hobbyists and hobby businesses to communities. We relentlessly improve the exchange of things and thoughts that fuel passions, providing the most compelling destination and tools for collectible card game enthusiasts and professional sellers! TCGplayer, now a part of eBay, promotes and drives growth of our products and services by connecting a global community of millions of buyers with tens of thousands of retailers in a $25B global collectible hobby market.

The Senior Data engineer will join the Data Engineering team, who collaborate across the TCGplayer Technology organization to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the organization’s use of datastore technologies. Members of this team partner with other teams to define appropriate datastore infrastructure for applications, create efficient and scalable database and data flow designs, resolve scaling or performance challenges as they arise in existing systems, and generally support effective datastore usage in aspects such as data architecture, data governance, data lifecycle management, software currency, and security.

Our team prides itself on a culture that fosters camaraderie, embraces diversity, and exudes passion! We are one of New York State’s 50 best employers and Fortune.com’s top 100 companies for women in the U.S.
 

What you will accomplish:

• Guide selection of appropriate datastore technologies for new and replatformed applications, ensuring they meet current and future data needs

• Consult on database design for the structures within an application’s datastores, optimizing for performance and scalability 

• Write minimal yet effective code, primarily database queries, to facilitate data management and manipulation

• Support other engineers and teams with expert advice on the best ways to interface with databases and data storage solutions

• Support the development of data flow strategies and assist in defining data storage requirements for microservices, ensuring alignment with overall system architecture

• Troubleshoot and improve existing database designs and queries to enhance system performance and reliability

• Collaborate with other teams to ensure that data architectures and data flow designs are scalable, reliable, and efficient

• Provide leadership on cross-application datastore-related projects, including those related to security, software currency, and platform migrations

• Act as a subject matter expert for one or more datastores, offering direct guidance and creating materials to help other technologists improve their proficiency with datastore usage

• Research emerging capabilities in both the datastores used by the organization and the broader marketplace to inform long-term strategic planning in the data domain

• Define and implement data storage strategies for microservices, ensuring each service is supported by a robust and appropriate data management framework

What you will bring:

•  Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or a related field, or a combination of education and experience

• 8 years or more experience in designing datastores, data architectures, and data flows for microservices which are scalable, reliable, and efficient.

• Mastery of NoSQL datastore technologies, significant experience with MongoDB strongly preferred. Familiarity with other NoSQL databases like Redis and ElasticSearch is also beneficial.

• Significant experience with RDBMS technologies. PostgreSQL preferred. 

• Strong experience and knowledge relating to working within a cloud-first environment, AWS experience strongly preferred.

• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, including ability to adapt messaging as appropriate for varying audiences.

• Strong ability to influence through collaboration across functional roles and levels within the organization. 

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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TCGplayer, a subsidiary company of eBay, is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status.  If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at careers@tcgplayer.com.  We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible. View our accessibility info to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. For more information see: EEO is the Law Poster and EEO is the Law Poster Supplement.

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