Network Topology Engineer

eBay’s traffic engineering team is responsible for building and managing platforms that currently handle over 15+ billion requests per day. As a part of the traffic engineering team, the ideal candidate will collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver the platform and contribute to upstream open source projects. The candidate will be working on building a very resilient distributed system at eBay’s edges that can proxy all of eBay traffic with unparalleled observability. 

The ideal candidate for this role will be someone who is very hands-on with various programming languages like C/C++, GoLang, Python. The candidate should have strong analytical, debugging and triaging skills and should also be willing to learn new technologies. The role is expected to work closely with a technical lead on the design and implementation of the distributed system at the edges. Familiarity and working knowledge of networking technologies like BGP, anycast is a must. Past experience with kernel programming is a big plus. 

Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer science or any equivalent field with at least 3 years of experience.

Special Skill Requirements:

1.Experience with TCP/IP networking

2.Experience with C/C++, Golang and Kernel programming

3.Experience with Python, Javascript and Java is a plus

4.Familiarity with TCP, SSL and HTTP Protocols.

5.Distributed systems with design and implementation of network communication

6.Multi-threaded programming;

7.Telemetry infrastructure to accumulate and export statistical information

8.Excellent debugging and triaging skills is a must.

9.Strong expertise in agile development and a person who can be a technical lead.