Principal Architect

About the role

Cloud Data Technologies (CDT) team at eBay is responsible for all the data infrastructure and management of end-to-end data lifecycle for all eBay data from onsite to analytics use cases. We are looking for strong backend infrastructure engineers who are passionate about building data systems that support our real-time, batch and AI systems.

What you'll do

• Define and drive architecture for a distributed data platform supporting real-time, streaming, and batch workloads
• Lead design of core platform capabilities such as data lifecycle management, metadata systems, orchestration, and developer-facing APIs
• Build systems that improve data reliability, consistency, discoverability, and ease of use across diverse internal consumers
• Drive platform scalability, performance, and cost efficiency across high-throughput, low-latency systems
• Introduce automation and AI-assisted workflows (e.g., intelligent diagnostics, validation, safe remediation) to reduce operational overhead and improve system resilience

What you need

• 10–15 years in software engineering
• Java
• Python
• Go
• Any graduate