Availability Engineer

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The opportunity

eBay is seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Technical Duty Officer ) to help protect the availability, stability, and resilience of our most critical production systems. This is a high-impact role for a senior technical operator who thrives under pressure, leads calmly during incidents, and can quickly turn incomplete signals into conclusive action.

The Technical Duty Officer (TDO) is the senior technical leader within the shift for active production events in the Site Engineering Center. When unexpected outages or degradations occur, the TDO rapidly assesses technical and business impact, drives incident triage, coordinates multi-functional responders, and leads mitigation through restoration.. When unexpected outages or degradations occur, the TDO rapidly assesses technical and business impact, drives incident triage, coordinates multi-functional responders, and leads mitigation through restoration. The role advances the Availability pillar of Site Reliability at eBay. It provides senior technical judgment and strengthens operational standards. It also improves response rigor and resilience practices to boost system availability. The Site Engineering Center is part of eBay’s Site Reliability Engineering organization, and the TDO works closely with other SRE pillars, including Reliability, Observability, and Performance, to drive strong reliability outcomes across the platform. The role sits at the center of eBay’s incident management and service reliability strategy, partnering across engineering, architecture, SRE, operations, and support teams to improve availability at both the incident level and the systems level.

This role is ideal for someone with broad technical depth, strong operational judgment, and the ability to lead across infrastructure, application, database, network, and platform boundaries. The strongest candidates bring a customer-first demeanor, clear communication, and the discipline to improve systems not just during incidents, but after them as well.