Platform Engineer, Notification Platform

eBay • Austin, TX

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About The Position

At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.
Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.
Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.
About the team and role:
We are the eBay Frameworks Team!
We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to join our Application Platform team in Austin, TX.
You’ll help run and evolve our Event Subscription Platform (ESP), the backbone for push notifications at eBay.
Your work will keep messages flowing reliably and at scale, build the systems that deliver real-time updates to eBay’s partners and sellers.
You will collaborate closely with our San Jose, CA and Shanghai based counterparts to deliver on the product roadmap and enhance our platform.
If you are interested in working on high-impact, critical systems used across eBay, collaborating with professionals from multiple locations and growing distributed systems and event platforms, helping to shape how real-time notifications are delivered at global scale and building reliable, scalable platforms at eBay, this may be the role for you!

Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong Java fundamentals with Spring Boot, OOP, and data structures.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka or similar messaging systems.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Maven, Jenkins).
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and deploying to Kubernetes.
• Curiosity, ownership, and a focus on reliability and automation.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship scalable, highly available services for event subscriptions.
• Own operations: investigate and fix notification issues in production.
• Keep the platform secure and current with upgrades and vulnerability fixes.
• Automate routine maintenance to reduce toil and improve reliability.
• Write clean, maintainable Java using Spring Boot and solid OOP/design patterns.
• Build and operate event pipelines with Apache Kafka.
• Partner with teams across eBay to understand needs and deliver solutions.

Benefits

• a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed