Software Engineering Manager, Search

eBay is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for its AI search platform, Cassini, which powers various eBay applications. This role involves leading a team of C++ developers, setting technical direction, and partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver intuitive shopping experiences. The manager will champion engineering best practices, guide development efforts for platform excellence, and foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. The platform handles billions of requests and documents daily, focusing on relevant, scalable, and AI-powered experiences.

Must Have

• Lead and develop C++ software engineering teams.
• Set and drive technical direction for the team.
• Partner with product, science, and front-end teams.
• Champion engineering best practices (AI-assisted development, automated testing, CI/CD).
• Guide development for search platform excellence.
• Cultivate collaboration and continuous improvement.
• 5+ years experience in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience leading/managing software engineering teams.
• Deep expertise in modern C++ (C++17/20+) for high-performance computing.
• Expertise in building scalable, distributed systems.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Good to Have

• Experience in e-commerce or logistics.

At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.

Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.

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

Cassini is eBay’s AI search platform that powers most of eBay’s applications, from the search results page, recommendations on view item pages, to Ads serving and AI chatbot. Those applications are configured by different teams inside eBay as Cassini query workflows that use the different state-of-the-art capabilities of our system: efficient sparse and dense retrieval, machine-learned ranking, real-time inference, configurable federation, and workflow execution with automatic dependency fetching.

We serve several billion requests per day and host multiple billion documents in our production system. The mission of the search platform team is to help the different eBay product teams to create relevant, scalable, and magical experiences that are powered by AI.

We do this by:

• Adding new functionality to the platform,
• Optimizing cost-to-serve and latency on a platform level or optimizing via consultation on the application level, and
• Improving self-serve and monitoring capabilities.

General platform optimizations are usually achieved by developing or using advanced data structures and algorithms, while application-level optimizations are mostly rooted in a deep understanding of designing information retrieval systems. The core components of Cassini are written in modern C++, and we use parallel and distributed computation to power query serving. If you have a background in those areas and would like to contribute to achieving our mission, please come join us!

What you will accomplish:

• Lead and develop a team of skilled C++ developers of eBay's search platform
• Set and drive technical direction for the team, ensuring scalable, high-performance, and maintainable architecture.
• Partner multi-functionally with product, science, and front end teams to deliver intuitive, end-to-end shopping experiences.
• Champion engineering standard practices, including use of AI-assisted development tools, automated testing, and modern CI/CD workflows.
• Guide the development efforts of a team dedicated to excellence of the search platform.
• Cultivate a culture of collaboration, curiosity, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.

What you will bring:

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a closely related field, accompanied by 5 years of proven experience, or equivalent experience in place of the degree
• Experience in leading or managing software engineering teams.
• Deep, demonstrable expertise using modern C++ standards (C++17/20 or later) for high-performance computing
• Expertise in building scalable, distributed systems
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills across diverse teams and interested parties.
• Experience in e-commerce or logistics is a plus.

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