Senior Technical Lead – Traffic

About the role

This role sits at the center of networking, platform engineering, performance optimization, and production reliability. The team is focused on building intelligent traffic management solutions, advancing PoP and caching strategies, improving observability and cyber resilience, and enabling eBay to innovate at internet scale.

What you'll do

• Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery for traffic engineering systems spanning traffic management, load balancing, service connectivity
• Design and build resilient, secure, and high-performance distributed systems using C/C++ and Go, along with modern cloud-native platform patterns
• Own technical decisions across multiple functional areas, balancing scalability, reliability, performance, security, maintainability, and time-to-market tradeoffs
• Drive platform evolution on Kubernetes, including networking integrations such as CNI, service mesh, IPAM, and production-grade deployment patterns
• Establish and improve engineering metrics aligned to team and business goals, using observability and production insights to drive reliability, efficiency

What you need

• 12–22 yrs of experience
• Kubernetes
• C++
• Go
• System design
• C
• Linux
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA or M.Sc

Good to have

• Java
• Network security
• IPR