Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Security

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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.

**Prefer to hire in our Austin location for a hybrid schedule, 3 days a week in office.  We will also consider other office locations, not offering full remote work for this role**

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.

What you will accomplish:

• Collaborate with architects and product managers to gather and analyze requirements.

• Author software design documents to outline 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.

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers to deliver complete features from concept to deployment.

What you will bring:

• B.S, M.S. or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, with a minimum of 7+ years of proven experience and proficiency in one or more programming languages: Go, C++, or Java.

• Previous experience developing large-scale systems in SDN, Network Segmentation, or Security domain.

• 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, networking, and distributed systems.

• Proven experience in developing and scaling complex systems, experience with database management and messaging systems.

• Experience on SDN technologies including Geneve or OVS/OVN or VxLAN

• Proficiency and experience in Linux networking - TCP/IP, DNS, TIS, container networking, tunneling, proxies, gateways.

• Any experience in Kubernetes operator/controller development, service mesh technologies like Istio and Envoy are helpful.

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The pay range for this position at commencement of employment in California, Washington, or New York is expected in the range below.

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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