About the position
At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we're changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We're committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts. Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet. Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all. Fully Remote (Within the United States). About the team and the role: An eBay company, TCGplayer is on a quest to be the most trusted trading card game (TCG) platform — connecting and empowering the hobby community. Founded by and for TCG enthusiasts, we operate a global marketplace, and create tools, technologies and solutions that help small businesses simply and profitably sell TCGs at scale. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be leading large, strategic, or complex areas that have a clear impact on the success of the company. Your team will be primarily responsible for enhancing the order management and fulfillment experience for our sellers. You will be uplifting legacy applications into a microservice based architecture using the latest and greatest technologies. You will work closely with other development teams to bring a cohesive and intuitive selling experience to our customers across TCGplayer's suite of tools.
Responsibilities
- Enhance our order management capabilities as we expand internationally and into an omni-channel selling experience.
- Set development trends and architectural direction for your team and the Engineering organization.
- Decompose and plan large technical efforts into manageable schedules to ensure the on-time delivery of software.
- Bridge the gap between Engineering and other stakeholders such as Architecture, Ops, Product and senior management.
- Mentor and level up the members of your team.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or a related field, or a combination of education and experience.
- 12 or more years of experience as a software engineer with distributed systems.
- 5+ years of C# (ASP.Net/.Net Core).
- Significant experience in high volume production systems design with consideration for high availability, disaster recovery, performance, fault tolerance, and security.
- Expert knowledge of RDBMS technologies (SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL stores (Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch).
- Expert knowledge of APM (Application Process Monitoring), particularly Scalyr/DataSet for logs and New Relic for dashboards & alerting.
- Expert knowledge of event/stream processing mechanisms, specifically Kafka, but also with AWS SNS/SQS, RabbitMQ, or AzureBus.
- Experience designing and developing microservices in an AWS cloud based architecture.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, leadership and collaboration skills.
Benefits
- 401(k) eligibility
- various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave
