Software Engineer 2

eBay•San Jose, CA

2d•$187,741 - $262,700•Hybrid

About The Position

eBay, Inc. seeks a Software Engineer 2 in San Jose, California. The role develops and maintains monitoring systems and automation tools, improves application speed, reliability, and resource usage, and designs and deploys reliable, fault-tolerant software systems. The engineer responds to incidents and outages, establishes alerting mechanisms, analyzes system performance, conducts post-mortems, automates repetitive operational tasks, and ensures systems can handle increased load and traffic without performance degradation. Partial telecommuting is permitted from within a commutable distance. The schedule is 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Requirements

Master’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering, or a closely related field.
At least two years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
One year of experience designing, developing, and deploying software systems with reliability and fault tolerance.
One year of experience developing and maintaining automation scripts and tools to streamline operations and reduce manual interventions.
One year of experience implementing optimizations to improve application speed, reliability, and resource usage.
One year of experience developing and maintaining monitoring systems to track application and infrastructure health and performance.
One year of experience setting up alerting mechanisms to notify teams of potential issues before they impact users.
One year of experience conducting post-mortem analyses to identify root causes and implement preventive measures.
One year of experience automating repetitive tasks such as deployments, scaling, and monitoring.
One year of experience ensuring systems can handle increased load and traffic without performance degradation.
One year of experience responding to incidents and outages and resolving them efficiently.
One year of experience analyzing system performance and identifying bottlenecks or inefficiencies.
Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain monitoring systems to track the health and performance of applications and infrastructure.
Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools to streamline operations and reduce manual interventions.
Implement optimizations to improve application speed, reliability, and resource usage.
Design, develop, and deploy software systems with reliability and fault tolerance in mind.
Respond to incidents and outages, working to resolve them quickly and efficiently.
Set up alerting mechanisms to notify teams of potential issues before they impact users.
Analyze system performance and identify bottlenecks or inefficiencies.
Conduct post-mortem analyses to identify root causes and implement preventive measures.
Automate repetitive tasks such as deployments, scaling, and monitoring.
Ensure systems can handle increased load and traffic without degradation in performance.