eBay
Software Engineer 3, Search Backend
$98K–$174K
Austin · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 4 or more years of professional software engineering experience building production applications.
- Education
- BS/BA or above in Computer Science or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Remote roles are not eligible for U.S. visa sponsorship.
About the job
Build and operate scalable, fault-tolerant pipelines that distribute fresh search indexes across eBay’s global search infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Design and build real-time and batch index distribution pipelines and core infrastructure components.
- Develop automated cluster management with health monitoring, alerting, and remediation; own components through production.
- Troubleshoot distributed pipeline failures and performance issues, and coordinate with partner teams to ensure timely, consistent index delivery.
What they ask for
- BS/BA or above in Computer Science or a related field.
- 4 or more years of professional software engineering experience building production applications.
- Experience building backend distributed systems, including fault tolerance, consistency, replication, and concurrency; strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems fundamentals.
- Proficiency in Java, Scala, or similar languages; hands-on experience with streaming/data pipeline technologies and cluster coordination tools; experience deploying distributed services with Docker and Kubernetes.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with search technologies such as Lucene, Solr, Elasticsearch, or proprietary search engines.
- Experience with Kafka, Spark, Flink, or similar technologies.
Pay
$98,000 - $173,600 USD base salary
Tools
Java, Scala, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Zookeeper, Docker, Kubernetes
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