Job Overview
Location
Remote North Carolina
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Data Engineer
Date Posted
May 20, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As a Staff Data Engineer on the TCGplayer Data Systems team at eBay Inc., you will serve as a technical leader shaping the direction of the company’s evolving data estate, ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency of systems that power eBay’s global ecommerce platform.
- • Day to day, you will partner with technical leaders to define datastore infrastructure, design scalable data flows for microservices and event-driven systems, manage cross-application projects involving data governance and platform migrations, and optimize database design for performance and scalability.
- • You will work within the TCGplayer Technology organization, a passionate team of innovators focused on building communities and creating economic opportunity through technology, operating under eBay’s mission to reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts worldwide.
- • In this role, you will deepen your expertise in data architecture and governance, influence technical decisions across engineering teams, mentor fellow engineers, and drive strategic planning by researching emerging data technologies to support long-term scalability and reliability of eBay’s data systems.
🎯 Requirements
- • 10+ years of experience designing datastores, data architectures, and data flows for scalable, reliable, and efficient production systems
- • Deep expertise with relational/transactional databases in production (Postgres preferred), including schema design, indexing, query optimization, execution plans, partitioning, and performance tuning
- • Strong experience building and evolving datastores for microservices and event-driven applications (Kafka preferred)
- • Experience working across multiple data technologies, including relational databases (Postgres preferred), document databases (MongoDB preferred), caching technologies (Redis preferred), and analytics platforms (Snowflake preferred)
- • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive base pay range of $136,000 - $228,600, with potential for target bonus and restricted stock units
- • Full range of medical, financial, and other benefits including 401(k) eligibility
- • Various paid time off benefits such as PTO and parental leave
- • Opportunity to work remotely from North Carolina
Skills & Technologies
About eBay Inc.
eBay Inc. is a global e-commerce company that operates a marketplace connecting buyers and sellers worldwide. Its platform facilitates the sale of a wide range of goods, including new and used items, collectibles, and electronics, through auction-style and fixed-price formats. eBay also offers various payment solutions and advertising services to support its sellers. The company operates across multiple countries, providing a diverse and accessible online shopping experience. Its business model relies on transaction fees, listing fees, and advertising revenue generated from its vast network of users and merchants.
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