Senior Software Engineer - Golang

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About the team and the role

The Observability Platform team builds and operates the infrastructure that helps eBay teams monitor, troubleshoot, and improve the reliability of large-scale distributed systems. The platform supports the telemetry and reliability needs of thousands of microservices across eBay and operates at hyperscale, processing billions of time series and petabytes of log data using modern open-source technologies such as Prometheus, Click House, Open Telemetry, and related tools.

The Role:

As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will design and build high-performance distributed systems in Golang that power eBay’s observability platform across metrics, logs, traces, and related workflows. You will work across the full telemetry lifecycle—from ingestion and processing to storage, query, and platform services—building reliable backend systems that operate at massive scale.

You will partner closely with SREs, platform engineers, and service owners to solve complex reliability challenges, improve operational excellence, and help shape the future of observability s role offers the opportunity to work on business-critical infrastructure, contribute to open-source technologies, and grow through direct exposure to some of eBay’s most complex engineering problems. This role also includes participation in the team’s on-call rotation in support of production reliability.

What you will accomplish

Design, build, and operate scalable, fault-tolerant backend services in Golang for eBay’s observability platform

Develop high-throughput systems for ingesting, redefining, storing, and querying telemetry data across logs, metrics, and traces

Improve the performance, reliability, and maintainability of distributed systems that support hyperscale observability workloads

Strengthen Kubernetes-based production systems through resilient service design, self-healing patterns, autoscaling, and operational excellence

Partner with SREs, platform teams, and service owners to translate observability needs into robust platform capabilities and developer-friendly tools

Contribute to architecture reviews, production readiness efforts, and post-incident improvements that raise the reliability bar across the platform

Help evolve engineering standards, code quality, and best practices for Go-based services running in cloud-native environments

Expand your technical breadth by working across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, open-source observability tooling, and platform engineering

What you will bring7+ years of experience in software engineering, backend infrastructure, or distributed systems engineering

Strong hands-on programming expertise in Golang, with a proven track record of building reliable, scalable backend or infrastructure services

Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts including scalability, concurrency, fault tolerance, performance optimization, and system reliability

Experience designing, building, and operating production services in Kubernetes or similar cloud-native environments

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