Software Engineer, Cloud Security

About the team and role:

eBay’s Cloud team is on a transformative journey to build a software-defined infrastructure that scales with our business and self-heals. We face unique challenges daily, requiring innovative solutions that ensure our platform's reliability, availability, and efficiency.

Our work is essential to eBay's operations, impacting millions of customers who rely on our platform, often as their primary source of income. We offer autonomy, demand expertise, and together, we fulfill our mission.

The Cloud Security team at eBay is dedicated to designing, building, and managing critical, scalable security services that protect eBay's infrastructure without hindering developer efficiency. Our approach to innovation is to make security invisible, providing a flawless experience for engineers while fortifying the cloud with zero-trust architecture and layered defense strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with architects and product managers to gather and analyze requirements.
• Author comprehensive software design documents to outline innovative solutions.
• Develop high-quality code with a focus on test-driven development.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for efficient software deployment.
• Develop monitoring dashboards and alert systems to ensure service performance.
• Fix and resolve production issues, providing outstanding customer support.

Required Skills:

• M.S. or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, with a minimum of 3+ years of proven experience
• Extensive experience with LDAP and Active Directory (AD) directory services for authentication, identity management, and integration into secure cloud environments.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages: Python, Go, C++ or Java.
• Proficient in problem-solving, with a strong understanding of data structures and algorithms and a solid foundation in core computer science concepts, including operating systems, security, databases and distributed systems.
• Experience working with both relational and non-relational databases like MySQL, MongoDB
• Experience working in any of Cloud Security Software development like Authentication, Authorization, Access management, Data encryption

Nice to have skills,

• Authentication and Authorization - OIDC, OAuth, SSO, FIDO
• Access management - RBAC, Scope Claim based access, Policy based access
• Kubernetes customization – API Server webhooks, Custom Resource definitions, Controllers
• Service mesh technologies like Istio and Envoy