Software Engineer, Airflow

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Are you ready to build the future of eBay’s batch workflow automation?

eBay is undertaking a modernization initiative for the Batch Platform by transitioning from Broadcom’s Automic to Apache Airflow. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in Apache Airflow to join our Batch Operations team. This platform engineering role offers the chance to provide Airflow as a Service and enable hundreds of internal users to coordinate diverse workflows across multiple marketplace domains.

• Develop, deploy, and maintain Airflow‑as‑a‑service to fulfill eBay’s batch processing demands, ensuring consistent availability and security.
• Lead the deployment and management of Airflow clusters, focusing on reliability and scalability.
• Design and implement observability, monitoring, and operational solutions to provide deep insights into DAG/task executions and system health.
• Evaluate, specify, and implement the feature gap between UC4 and Airflow.
• Automate and maintain operational standards across multiple environments.
• Support horizontal scaling and high availability across cloud‑infrastructure clusters.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field plus 7+ years of experience, or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field with 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience providing Apache Airflow as a managed service within enterprise settings supporting extensive user groups.
• Expertise in architecting, managing, and scaling Airflow deployments in Kubernetes or cloud environments, including operational challenges, synchronization of DAGs, and multi‑region failover.
• Deep familiarity with workflow automation patterns, enterprise scheduler migration, and bridging legacy‑platform feature gaps.
• Proven success developing observability and operational tools (metrics, monitoring, dashboards, alerting, log analysis) for workflow orchestration platforms.
• Excellent technical leadership, initiative, and collaboration skills; thrive in fast‑paced, high‑impact modernization programs.
• Familiarity with Automic Enterprise Scheduler is a plus.

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

$115,200 - $199,700

Base pay offered may vary depending on location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable), in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employees will be in an at‑will position, and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

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