Software Engineer -Media Platform

eBay’s Media Platform team builds and runs a petabyte-scale distributed media platform that powers large-scale storage and media use cases. This role involves designing, implementing, testing, and scaling this critical platform by collaborating with peer engineers, customers, and product managers. The Software Engineer will design, build, test, and deploy highly available and large distributed system components, perform operational tasks to maintain uptime and reliability, and consistently deliver high-quality product releases.

Must Have

• Design, build, test and deploy software components for a highly available and large distributed system.
• Perform development and operational tasks to maintain uptime & reliability SLAs of the platform.
• Consistently deliver high-quality and on-time product releases and deploy to production.
• Collaborate with product management, customers, peer teams and engineers.
• Participate in and/or lead engineering discussions, technical evaluations, design reviews and other project discussions.
• Follow internal Quality and Reliability engineering processes to meet or exceed established standards.
• Bachelor’s/Master’s/Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years work experience in software design and implementation, ideally in large scale, 24x7 dedicated distributed systems.
• Expertise in object-oriented design and backend software development using Java (preferred), C++, or similar technologies.
• Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms and distributed systems.
• Experience with agile development methodologies in an iterative development environment.
• Consistent track record with understanding requirements and translate them into high quality engineering work.

Good to Have

• Experience using open-source technologies and/or contributing to open source software.
• Proactive and upbeat engineer with a strong bias for action.
• Strong verbal & written communication skills and attention to detail.

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About the team and the role:

eBay’s Media Platform team builds and runs petabyte-scale distributed media platform that powers large scale storage and media use cases. We use a combination of internal engineering innovation and external open-source technologies to build our always available platforms. The work in this team spans engineering design, implementation and operations for distributed storage, transcoding, streaming, edge-caching, CDN and related uploading and serving capabilities.

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer who will be a core part of the engineering team building one of the most critical systems powering eBay’s global eCommerce business. You will be designing, implementing, testing & scaling this large media platform by working closely with peer engineers, customers, and product managers.

What you will accomplish:

• Design, build, test and deploy software components for a highly available and large distributed system.
• Perform development and operational tasks to maintain uptime & reliability SLAs of the platform.
• Consistently deliver high-quality and on-time product releases and deploy to production.
• Collaborate with product management, customers, peer teams and engineers.
• Participate in and/or lead engineering discussions, technical evaluations, design reviews and other project discussions.
• Follow internal Quality and Reliability engineering processes to meet or exceed established standards.

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s/Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years work experience in software design and implementation, ideally in large scale, 24x7 dedicated distributed systems.
• Expertise in object-oriented design and backend software development using Java (preferred), C++, or similar technologies.
• Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms and distributed systems.
• Experience with agile development methodologies in an iterative development environment.
• Experience using open-source technologies and/or contributing to open source software.
• Consistent track record with understanding requirements and translate them into high quality engineering work.
• Proactive and upbeat engineer with a strong bias for action.
• Strong verbal & written communication skills and attention to detail.