eBay
Senior Software Engineer - Go/Golang
$172K–$230K
San Jose · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years in software engineering, backend infrastructure, or distributed systems engineering.
- Visa sponsorship
- Remote roles are not eligible for U.S. visa sponsorship.
About the job
Designs and operates Go-based distributed backend systems for eBay’s observability platform, covering telemetry ingestion, processing, storage, and querying.
What you'll do
- Build scalable, fault-tolerant backend services and high-throughput telemetry pipelines for logs, metrics, and traces.
- Improve performance and reliability of Kubernetes-based production systems and contribute to operational readiness and incident follow-up.
- Partner with SREs, platform teams, and service owners to develop observability capabilities and developer tools; participate in on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- Strong hands-on Golang expertise and a track record building reliable, scalable backend or infrastructure services.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, including scalability, concurrency, fault tolerance, performance, and reliability.
- Experience designing, building, and operating production services in Kubernetes or similar cloud-native environments.
- Strong knowledge of observability concepts, including metrics, logs, traces, telemetry pipelines, and production monitoring.
Nice to have
- Experience with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Grafana, or similar tools.
- Open-source infrastructure or internal developer platform contributions; familiarity with JavaScript/React or user-facing observability experiences.
Pay
$172,000 - $229,600 USD base salary
Tools
Golang, Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Grafana, JavaScript, React
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