Director of Engineering, Live Platforms

eBay • Toronto, ON

11d

About The Position

eBay Live Engineering builds and operates the real-time platform behind eBay’s live shopping and interactive experiences. We combine low-latency video, interactive chat, and commerce actions with robust trust, safety, and analytics—at global scale.

Requirements

• 10+ years of overall professional experience, including 5+ years in an engineering leadership or management role, leading small to medium-sized software engineering teams.
• Strong technical background with experience building and operating large-scale, distributed systems emphasizing high availability, scalability, and resilience.
• Demonstrated ability to drive consistent, high-velocity delivery while maintaining high standards for quality, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum development environments, including sprint planning, prioritization, and continuous improvement.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical and business topics, align stakeholders, and influence decisions at multiple levels.
• Strong product intuition and the ability to collaborate effectively with product, analytics, and business partners to deliver customer-focused solutions.
• Proven ability to quickly learn new technical domains, adapt to evolving requirements, and lead teams through change.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a cross-functional full-stack and native engineering team (backend and frontend), providing empathetic, individualized coaching, regular feedback, and clear growth paths aligned with career goals.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture grounded in trust, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Own delivery outcomes for the team, ensuring predictable, high-quality software delivery through strong execution, prioritization, and operational rigor.
• Partner with Product Management to define, prioritize, and maintain a healthy product backlog aligned with strategic goals, technical capacity, and business impact.
• Work closely with product managers, business stakeholders, analytics, and partner engineering teams to define, brainstorm, and scale the next generation of eBay shipping products.
• Define and communicate the team’s technical vision, championing engineering best practices, sound architecture, and innovation while raising the bar on performance, reliability, and system quality.
• Guide and support the team in solving complex challenges related to large-scale systems, performance optimization, and operational reliability.
• Balance near-term delivery commitments with long-term technical and product strategy to maximize impact while managing technical debt responsibly.
• Partner effectively with peer managers, senior engineers, and leadership across eBay to align on priorities, influence decisions, and drive shared outcomes.
• Participate in hiring, onboarding, and talent planning to build and sustain a strong engineering team over time.

Benefits

• eBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees