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About the team and role:
eBay's traffic engineering team is tasked with developing and overseeing the global cloud platforms that manage the entirety of eBay's site traffic. The successful candidate will lead several engineering teams, comprising both junior and senior members, in constructing a highly resilient distributed system at eBay's global network edges. This system will not only proxy all of eBay's traffic but also support eBay's service mesh for all our site services.
We are seeking a Cloud Engineering Director to lead our Traffic team within the Infrastructure Engineering Organization. This dynamic and motivated team of software engineers is united by a common mission, tackling complex challenges on a global scale. In this key leadership position, you will help shape our engineering strategy and roadmap, translating business requirements into actionable implementation phases. Additionally, you will play an active role in recruiting as we expand our team across various geographic locations.
What you will accomplish:
- Build and manage a team of infrastructure software engineers, encouraging a strong team culture.
- Develop their skills and their careers as you tackle those challenges and contribute to eBay’s overall infrastructure strategy.
- Lead and coordinate engineering activities to successfully plan, communicate, and deliver on product features on time while designing for quality, observability, and scalability.
- Provide technical expertise and software engineering guidance to automate processes and improve team efficiency.
- Ensure full software lifecycle instrumentation from requirement ideation to software development to deployment. Collaborate with Cloud engineering, Operations, Product, and PMO to balance resources and project schedules.
- Maintain transparent communication across all levels of the organization.
- Actively participate in all phases of growing the engineering organization through recruiting, team building, etc.
What You Will Bring:
- Skilled at organizational change management, executive influence, and leadership.
- Experienced with global software development methodologies.
- Possess 10 years of experience in leadership roles within the technology sector.
- Bring 15 years of proven experience focused on infrastructure and/or engineering.
- Experienced in handling large-scale, multi-functional infrastructure projects.
- Excel at communicating critical updates to organizational leaders.
- Skilled in infrastructure as code and traffic engineering.
- Experienced in supporting medium to large tech organizations with geographically distributed teams.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience working with Envoy for traffic control.
- Experience working with ISTIO or a similar service mesh implementation.
- Experience contributing to and leading open-source projects.
- Certifications in networking, Kubernetes, cyber security, or related fields.
- Experience in a high-traffic, global, and large-scale environments.
- Familiarity with additional programming languages, including C++, Java, or Python.
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