Staff Software Engineer, Backend

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Hybrid role - 2-3 days in our Austin, TX or Portland, OR office
About the team and the role: 
 

We are the eBay Seller Experience Team, dedicated to driving impactful projects and encouraging an outstanding, inclusive team culture.

As a Senior Staff Engineer in the Seller Experience – Inventory Management team, you will have the unique opportunity to work on one of the largest and most dynamic e-commerce platforms in the world. This role focuses on building and evolving the systems that power the way sellers manage and organize their inventory—directly influencing the success of millions of sellers and buyers globally.

The scale and complexity of eBay's inventory management system presents a challenging yet rewarding environment where innovative solutions and ground-breaking technologies are at the forefront. If you're passionate about solving sophisticated problems at scale and want to make a tangible impact on a global platform, this role offers unparalleled opportunities for growth and innovation.

Join us in shaping the future of e-commerce!
 

What you will accomplish:

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of backend systems that power core inventory operations—enabling seamless item creation, updates, and synchronization across eBay surfaces.

• Drive the modernization of inventory services by introducing scalable, modular, and cloud-native systems using microservices and event-driven patterns.

• Collaborate with product managers, business stakeholders, and UX teams to define and refine requirements, translating them into scalable and maintainable technical solutions.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across the team, promoting best practices in system design, coding, testing, and operational excellence.

• Build and maintain high-performance APIs and messaging components to support fast, reliable, and secure inventory interactions.

• Define and implement best practices around observability, automated testing, and CI/CD to ensure production-readiness and reduce operational burden.

• Lead large-scale technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams and partner organizations to ensure alignment and successful delivery.

What you will bring:

• 8 more years of professional experience in software development, including 3+ years in a staff or principal engineering role with architectural leadership responsibilities

• Expert-level skills in Java/J2EE and related frameworks such as Spring Boot, with a strong understanding of microservices architecture and distributed system design

• Extensive experience with NoSQL (e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB) and relational databases (e.g., Oracle), along with a solid understanding of event-driven and messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, service bus, etc

• Strong experience designing and implementing scalable APIs (REST/GraphQL) and integrating with internal and external systems

• Proven ability to analyze complex technical challenges and develop practical, innovative solutions focused on high performance, reliability, and scalability

• Ability to work in our Austin, TX or Portland, OR office for 2-3 days out of the week

Nice to Have:

• Experience with inventory, catalog, or commerce-related systems at web scale.

• Familiarity with cloud-native technologies, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and DevOps tooling.

• Prior contributions to open-source projects, technical writing, or conference presentations
   

Hybrid role - 2-3 days in our Austin, TX or Portland, OR office
 

The base pay range for this position 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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