Software Engineer
US$172,000 / yr base salary
Posted 7 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Senior Software Engineer - Go/Golang”
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
- Visa sponsorship
- Not offered
| Base salary | US$172,000 / yr |
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At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.
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.
About the team and the role
The Observability Platform team builds and operates the infrastructure that helps eBay teams monitor, troubleshoot, and improve the reliability of large-scale distributed systems. The platform supports the telemetry and reliability needs of thousands of microservices across eBay and operates at hyperscale, processing billions of time series and petabytes of log data using modern open-source technologies such as Prometheus, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, and related tools.
The Role:
As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will design and build high-performance distributed systems in Golang that power eBay’s observability platform across metrics, logs, traces, and related workflows. You will work across the full telemetry lifecycle—from ingestion and processing to storage, query, and platform services—building reliable backend systems that operate at massive scale.
You will partner closely with SREs, platform engineers, and service owners to solve complex reliability challenges, improve operational excellence, and help shape the future of observability at eBay. This role offers the opportunity to work on business-critical infrastructure, contribute to open-source technologies, and grow through direct exposure to some of eBay’s most complex engineering problems. This role also includes participation in the team’s on-call rotation in support of production reliability.
What you will accomplish
- Design, build, and operate scalable, fault-tolerant backend services in Golang for eBay’s observability platform
- Develop high-throughput systems for ingesting, redefining, storing, and querying telemetry data across logs, metrics, and traces