Traffic Software Engineer

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About the team and role:

We are the eBay Traffic Engineering team! We are seeking an expert Software Engineer to join our dynamic team at eBay.

Our team is responsible for building and managing platforms that currently handle all of eBay public and private site traffic.

As a member of the traffic engineering team, you will collaborate with multi-functional engineering teams to deliver the platform and contribute to open-source projects. You will be working on building a very resilient distributed system at eBay's edges that can proxy eBay traffic and also eBay's service mesh for all of our services with unparalleled observability.

What you will accomplish:

• Collaborate with multi-functional engineering teams to deliver the platform and contribute to open-source projects.
• Work on building a very resilient distributed system at eBay's edges that can proxy all eBay traffic and also eBay's service mesh for all of our services with unparalleled observability.
• Work with other developers in different phases of system development.
• Build and debug large scale distributed systems and help with observability and monitoring of the system.
• Contribute your knowledge and experience of the networking topology (TCP and HTTP stack) to solve any network related issues encountered by the system, deploying and troubleshooting large scale infrastructure.

What you will bring:

• Hands-on development experience with strong analytical skills.
• Familiarity and proven understanding of networking technologies like BGP, anycast is a must, experience with TCP/IP networking and familiarity with TCP, UDP, SSL and HTTP Protocols.
• Hands-on experience with various programming languages like C/C++, GoLang to build the system and also build automation around it for better observability and remediation, any experience with kernel programming and experience with Python is a plus!
• Distributed systems with design and implementation of network communication using container networking technologies.
• Multi-threaded programming: Telemetry infrastructure to accumulate and export statistical information.
• Excellent debugging and triaging skills and strong expertise in agile development.
• Familiarity with L4 Networking layer and Kubernetes is a plus.

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