Senior Technical Lead – Traffic

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. Job Type: Full-time About the Team At eBay, Traffic Engineering powers secure, scalable, and highly available traffic systems that support our global commerce platform. This role sits at the center of networking, platform engineering, performance optimization, and production reliability. The team is focused on building intelligent traffic management solutions, advancing PoP and caching strategies, improving observability and cyber resilience, and enabling eBay to innovate at internet scale. Role Summary We are looking for a Senior Technical Lead to lead the architecture, development, and evolution of eBay’s traffic engineering platform. This is an L26-level role for an experienced technical leader who can operate beyond a single component or team, drive design across multiple functional areas, influence technical direction, and improve engineering effectiveness across the organization. You will combine deep systems and networking expertise with strong execution, mentoring, and multi-functional leadership to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performance traffic solutions for eBay’s global platform. Key Responsibilities Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery for traffic engineering systems spanning traffic management, load balancing, service connectivity, PoP optimization, and caching infrastructure. Design and build resilient, secure, and high-performance distributed systems using C/C++ and Go, along with modern cloud-native platform patterns. Own technical decisions across multiple functional areas, balancing scalability, reliability, performance, security, maintainability, and time-to-market tradeoffs. Drive platform evolution on Kubernetes, including networking integrations such as CNI, service mesh, IPAM, and production-grade deployment patterns. Establish and improve engineering metrics aligned to team and business goals, using observability and production insights to drive reliability, efficiency, and customer impact. Lead incident prevention and operational excellence through strong observability, cyber security controls, performance tuning, and robust system design. Partner with product, infrastructure, security, and adjacent engineering teams to align roadmaps, resolve cross-team dependencies, an…