Senior Director Eng, Buyer & Community

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.

Overview:

The Senior Director of Engineering for Buyer & Community drives the technical vision and execution for eBay's core user experience. This role requires a visionary technologist who blends strategic leadership with elite technical execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Proactive Technical Strategy: Create, champion, and proactively influence eBay's deep technical strategy, aligning multi-year engineering roadmaps with macro technology trends and organizational goals.

• Talent and Execution: Lead, inspire, and scale a world-class engineering organization across architecture, platform, and product engineering, establishing a high-performance culture for senior engineering roles rooted in mentorship and career acceleration.

• Technical Depth: Maintain a high level of technical depth and architectural authority. While leading a large organization, retain the ability to comfortably dive into the codebase, prototype breakthrough capabilities, and champion the production-grade integration of advanced AI/ML technologies. Lead from the front, ensuring engineering excellence through technical credibility..

• Operational Excellence: Elevate engineering standards, including system design reviews, strict SLOs/SLIs, robust CI/CD pipelines, and proactive observability across global, distributed environments.

• Cross-Functional Influence: Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and Business executives to unlock measurable business outcomes, manage technical risk, and mitigate technical debt.

What Success Looks Like

• AI & Architectural Impact: Predictable delivery of major milestones and product launches (on-time, within scope). Clear architecture roadmap and measurable reduction in technical debt

• Organizational Growth: A thriving, high-retention culture of senior engineering talent with a clear pipeline of developed engineering leaders.

• System Vitality: Continuous improvements against rigorous SLOs, driving high availability, lower latency, and rapid deployment cycles

Required Qualifications

• 20+ years of software engineering experience shipping highly resilient, large-scale consumer internet applications.

• 6+ years of experience managing managers, with a track record of leading organizations of 100+ engineers across multiple geographies.

• Active Technical Depth: Ability to dive into the codebase, contribute to production code, and architect complex, distributed systems.

• Practical experience leveraging and deploying AI/ML technologies directly into production environments at scale.

• Demonstrated capability to attract elite engineering talent and build world-class engineering cultures.

• Strategic Influence: stakeholder management with the ability to shape deep technical strategy across an enterprise.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior engineering leadership within top-tier marketplace, e-commerce, or hyper-scale consumer internet companies.

• Deep domain expertise in event-driven architectures, microservices, and massive data platform engineering.

Additional Details

eBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at talent@ebay.com. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.

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