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Join our innovative team at eBay, where we leverage cutting-edge cloud technology to deliver business outcomes. Our commitment to excellence and growth provides an ideal environment for professional development in the rapidly evolving tech landscape. At eBay, we are proud of our work on open-source projects, which help set industry standards and drive innovation.

We are seeking an experienced K8s engineer to join our dynamic team at eBay in Dublin, Ireland. This role requires a solid understanding of containers and Kubernetes, proficiency in programming languages such as Go, and Python. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of experience in the field, focusing on designing, developing, deploying, and operating a self-service platform that enables collaborative lifecycle management of applications that underpin eBay products and services.

Requirements

• Minimum 5+ years of Go programming experience.

• 8+ years’ experience implementing large scale, distributed, high availability, fault-tolerant systems and infrastructure in a production environment and delivering products in a multi-functional team environment.

• Experience with Kubernetes as an administrator (or related cloud infrastructure and cloud-native technologies), experience in Developing with Kubernetes and/or building Kubernetes controllers highly desirable.

• High standards for development quality, especially on unit testing, TDD / BDT, and automated testing.

• Extensive experience in multi-threaded and concurrency programming: deadlock, starvation, thread allocation, thread safety, concurrency design patterns.

• Deep understanding of API design and RESTful principles, experience in building web services at scale.

• Experience in participating in open-source standards and contributing to open source.

Responsibilities

• Lead and collaborate with internal customers and partners to deliver key business outcomes.

• Design, implement and manage modern cloud-native products and services that provide key competitive advantages for eBay.

• Ensure that cloud products are reliable, efficient and meet eBay security and operational standards.

• Adapt the latest open-source tools and technologies for use in the eBay context.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience contributing to open-source projects.

• Certifications in Kubernetes, lifecycle management or related fields.

• Understanding Application lifecycle management, CI/CD is a plus.

• Experience in a high-traffic, large-scale environment.

• Familiarity with additional programming languages or frameworks.

• Proficiency in Agile development methodologies.

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