About eBay Inc.

At eBay, our systems scale to billions of transactions per day, and we run our site 24x7 with 99.99% reliability. We have more than 30 million lines of J2EE/Java based source code. We are leaders in cloud computing, SOA, search, and many other specialties. We love technology, open source, and interacting with the industry. Our employees are friendly, caring people who form great teams, and who understand how to be world class engineers and still have fun and work-life balance.

Friday, December 23, 2011

Now Hiring: Manager Systems Engineering (ebay) jobs in Austin, TX at eBay, Inc

EBay - Manager Systems Engineering (ebay) jobs in Austin at eBay

Manager Systems Engineering (eBay)

Job Location: Austin, TX

Shift: Graveyard

Shift Details: The candidate must be willing to work night shifts.

Primary Job Responsibilities

eBay's Site Engineering Center is looking or a Systems Engineering Manager with a passion for solving complex and interesting problems. The highly motivated individual needs to be an independent and initiative seeking.

Candidate needs to manage a team of Systems Engineers who work in a shift model
Candidate must have strong technical skills in Windows, VMs and server management tools
Candidate needs to manage eBay services very effectively to support high-volume and business critical applications
Candidate should be a leader on complex site incidents and drive issues to restoration
Proactive efforts to prevent site incidents from occurring
Independently implement and build tools and test major features and capabilities, as well as work jointly with other team members on complex features and complex site issues
Provide technical leadership and do technical hands on scripting, tooling, automation for continuous improvement and site restoration
Solid Windows systems administration and load balancers experience is a must
Work with Architecture, Engineering and Operations teams to develop innovative solutions to attain high availability scalability and reliability
Apply technical & domain expertise to solving day to day challenges

Job Requirements

Excellent analysis, design and problem-solving skills
Experience building Site reliability engineering centers or network operations centers is a strong plus
Willing to work both day and night shifts as needed.
Manage, mentor and guide a team of engineers
Proven crisis management leadership ability working with cross functional teams and executive management
Effective communication skills are a must
Candidate should have excellent crisis management and incident management skills
Candidate should be very effective in working under stressful situations when the systems and components are in an unstable state
Good experience building highly-automated infrastructure
Proven results-oriented manager in a high-velocity and dynamic environment is a must
Experience with Virtualization, open source software is a plus
Advanced knowledge of operating system internals, file system structures and machine architectures in a UNIX/Linux environment
Excellent knowledge of Networking, Unix, Windows, Load balancers, Mail, DNS, TCP/IP and SAN technologies
Advanced level scripting is a plus
Working knowledge of relational databases (Oracle preferred), Apache, HTTP/HTML, XML and Java is a plus
Demonstrated leadership in technologies that are core to large and distributed systems like cloud computing, web services, multi-tier serving architectures etc

Education
BSCS or BSEE or Other Related 4yr Technical Degree

Job ID: 58451BR

Please send resume to David Sneed: dasneed@ebay.com

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Now Hiring: Sr. Manager QE (ebay) at eBay, Inc in Silicon Valley

EBay - Sr. Manager Qe (ebay) jobs in Silicon Valley at eBay

Sr. Manager QE (eBay)
Job Location: San Jose, CA

Primary Job Responsibilities

Do you crave technical challenges, love to work on a fast-paced team in a startup-type atmosphere and are passionate about building and growing a stellar engineering team? If so then this very challenging and highly technical manager of software quality engineering role is just right for you. The role requires analytical, innovative thinkers who can build cutting edge testing technologies and use next-generation automation techniques to successfully certify and automate eBay’s core engagement and merchandising platform: a global, distributed component architecture serving 100+ million visits a week for one of the largest eCommerce platforms in the world.

We are looking for an experienced, technically strong manager to help drive quality. The ideal candidate must have excellent leadership, communication and collaboration skills, a strong background in development and test planning and project management, a passion for quality and engineering excellence, and have lead experience spanning multiple successful ship cycles. As a manager you will be working very closely with your counterparts in product development and product management on planning and strategy, and driving engineering standards and best practices inside the team. You will have an opportunity to build a dynamic team, and contribute to our long-term strategy and infrastructure.

Job Requirements


Experience with Object Oriented programming and design developing distributed systems
Experience building distributed systems that scale to millions of users
Minimum of two years’ experience building services using Java, REST, and SOAP
Demonstrated passion for learning from and implementing creative large-scale architectural patterns
Experience working on a customer focused team
Demonstrated passion for large scale systems and horizontal scale
Experience turning business requirements into simple solutions
Experience building and testing services using Java, REST, and SOAP
Thorough understanding of parallel algorithms and concurrency
Writing automation using Java, Junit, Selenium, Webdriver and other internal Java-based automation frameworks for Frontend, SOA/Services and messaging components
Performance/stress testing and cloud testing expertise a plus


Education
Bachelors Degree Required


Job ID: 58805BR

Please send resume to David Sneed: dasneed@ebay.com

Now Hiring: Manager QA 1 (ebay) at eBay, Inc in Silicon Valley

EBay - Manager Qa 1 (ebay) jobs in Silicon Valley at eBay

Manager QA 1 (eBay)
Job Location: San Jose, CA

Primary Job Responsibilities

Are you an exceptional Java programmer with a passion for testing?

Do you like being first to see new technology and deploy it to people around the world?

Do you enjoy learning when, why, how, and where software can fail?

We want you for our team! eBay's Platform Quality team is responsible for using (and abusing) the latest software development technologies to create and power systems that serve up over 8 billion pages and perform over 70 billion read/write operations a day.

We are the first team to get the opportunity to work with the latest versions of eBay's world-class development technologies and we are the team that ultimately decides whether those technologies are ready to deploy to hundreds of eBay developers around the world.

Be able to articulate, evaluate and even evangelize testing strategies and ideas (e.g. TDD, test-first programming, exploratory automation) and apply them in eBay's search context. Work with other engineers, managers, producers, testers, and operations staff to develop innovative testing solutions that meet market needs with respect to the following areas: performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules, and adherence to testing goals and principles. Identify process and technology challenges and deficiencies that may need to be addressed, and drive those changes to successful adoption.

Identify project and product risks and be able to provide alternatives for reducing or mitigating risk.

Job Requirements

* 5+ years experience in requirements analysis, design and testing of scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant applications
* 1+ years in personnel management: goals, reviews, hiring, leadership
* Experience in Java, JavaScript, JUNIT
* RDBMS experience
* Knowledge of Java EE and application servers
* Programming background, including JUNIT / Code Coverage (Emma)/mock concepts/static analysis, testing frameworks
* Experience in Agile Development methods is a plus
* Test planning and strategy, risk analysis is also a plus
BSEE, CS + 5 yrs + 1 yr supervising experience or MS + 4 yrs + 1 yr supervising experience

Education
BSCS or BSEE or Other Related 4yr Technical Degree


Job ID: 58452BR

Please send resume to David Sneed: dasneed@ebay.com

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Job: Hadoop Engineer (ebay) in Silicon Valley at eBay, Inc - San Jose, CA

EBay - Mts2 Hadoop Engineer (ebay) jobs in Silicon Valley at eBay

MTS2 Hadoop Engineer (eBay)

Job Location: San Jose, CA

Primary Job Responsibilities
• Provide expert level support of the systems and the data pipelines of the Hadoop infrastructure
• Provide system hardware architecture and configuration recommendations, perform vendor evaluation and drive system provisioning automation
• Provide engineering and design support for Hadoop build, configuration, monitoring and supportability
• Work with Architecture and Development teams to test and benchmark new versions, patches and software components for functionality and reliability
• Contribute to the selection, prototyping, implementation and support of tools such as capacity planning and system monitoring for large scale data environments
• Review, develop, and implement strategies that preserve the integrity, availability, stability, and scalability of AIS systems and designs, consistent with cost (Capital and Labor) constraints
• Engage with the architecture team to design system and architecture standards to support internal and external development groups
• Work with internal and external technical leaders to develop innovative solutions that meet market needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability, realistic implementation schedules, and adherence to architectural goals and principles
• Review existing software/hardware architecture and identify areas for improvement in the areas of scalability, maintainability, and performance
• Ongoing corrective and preventative maintenance to improve reliability and availability
• Preparation of proposals, reports, architectures, designs, specifications, and operational documentation
• Perform training and be on-call to investigate system failures and assist in restoring functionality
• Fosters relationships of trust, respect, judgments, and maturity with peers, customers, management

Job Requirements
Master level experience with large scale Hadoop environments build and support including thought leadership, design, configuration, installation, capacity planning, capacity management, and performance tuning and monitoring.
• Expert level knowledge (hands-on) with the overall Hadoop eco-system (HDFS, Map Reduce, Pig/Hive, Skipper, Hbase etc)
• Expertise in UNIX architecture, systems administration and UNIX tools
• Knowledge and experience with parallel ETL tools
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing large scale analytics environments with particular attention to maintainability, scalability and high availability
• Experience with versioning, change control, problem management
• Solid experience with monitoring frameworks, and analyzing production platforms, UNIX servers and mission critical systems with alerting and self-healing systems
• Expert level capacity planning and capacity management skills
• Strong presentation and leadership skills
• Solid understanding of how businesses operate and use this context to drive innovation and ethical decision-making
• Proven results oriented engineer with a laser sharp delivery focus
• Sought out as an expert in all aspects of technical field with a solid business context
• Proven customer centricity who can foster effective partnerships with colleagues, customers, management
• Master level problem solving, root cause analysis, and comprehensive and strategic resolution to complex engineering problems

Education
BSCS or BSEE or Other Related 4yr Technical Degree

Job ID: 51707BR

Please send resume to David Sneed: dasneed@ebay.com

Job: EBay - Manager Hadoop Operations (ebay) jobs in Silicon Valley at eBay, Inc

EBay - Manager Hadoop Operations (ebay) jobs in Silicon Valley at eBay

Manager Hadoop Operations (eBay)

Job Location: San Jose, CA

Primary Job Responsibilities

This is a manager role with an expert level knowledge of the Hadoop eco-system with an innovative mind set. The candidate will serve as the leader responsible for maintaining and improving service availability, quality, and mentoring and growing the team of senior Hadoop engineers. The role will also provide support in the areas of design, implementation, configuration, change and problem management, deployment services, version control, system monitoring, automation and technical support across all ad hoc and production Hadoop platforms within marketplace. The role is expected to provide hands-on support as needed to deliver on the aggressive business goals. The position is located in San Jose, CA offices.

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of senior Hadoop engineers within operations organization
• Manage the restoration and repairs of all major incidents within Hadoop and Hadoop eco-system continuously improving MTTR
• Work with internal and external technical leaders to develop innovative solutions that meet market needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability, realistic implementation schedules, and adherence to architectural goals and principles
• Review, develop, and implement strategies that preserve the integrity, availability, stability, and scalability of analytics systems and designs
• Work with Architecture and Development teams to test and benchmark new versions, patches and software components for functionality and reliability
• Contribute to the selection, prototyping, implementation and support of tools such as capacity planning and system monitoring for large scale data environments
• Provide system hardware architecture and configuration recommendations, perform vendor evaluation
• Review existing software/hardware architecture and identify areas for improvement in the areas of scalability, maintainability, and performance
• Ongoing corrective and preventative maintenance to improve reliability and availability
• Preparation of proposals, reports, architectures, designs, specifications, and operational documentation
• Fosters relationships of trust, respect, judgments, and maturity with peers, customers, management

Job Requirements
Master level experience with large scale Hadoop environments build and support including thought leadership, design, configuration, installation, capacity planning, capacity management, and performance tuning and monitoring.
• Solid understanding of how businesses operate and use this context to drive innovation and ethical decision-making
• A natural leader who can inspire and bring out the best from direct reports, peers.
• The leader who has a passion for customers, and drives the execution of projects with laser sharp focus and agility
• The leader who can communicate and articulate the complex technological problems and the innovative solutions to the senior management
• Expert level knowledge (architecture, engineering, hands-on support) with the overall Hadoop eco-system (HDFS, Map Reduce, Pig/Hive, Zookeeper, Hbase, Oozie, etc.)
• Expertise in UNIX architecture, systems administration and UNIX tools
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing large scale analytics environments with particular attention to maintainability, scalability and high availability
• Experience with versioning, change control, problem management
• Solid experience with monitoring frameworks, and analyzing production platforms, UNIX servers and mission critical systems with alerting and self-healing systems
• Expert level capacity planning and capacity management skills
• Proven results oriented engineer with a laser sharp delivery focus
• Sought out as an expert in all aspects of technical field with a solid business context
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent
• Master level problem solving, root cause analysis, and comprehensive and strategic resolution to complex engineering problems

Education
BSCS or BSEE or Other Related 4yr Technical Degree


Job ID: 51176BR

Please send resume to David Sneed: dasneed@ebay.com
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