Software Engineer, Airflow

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Are you ready to build the future of eBay’s batch workflow automation?

eBay is undertaking a modernization initiative for the Batch Platform by transitioning from Broadcom’s Automic to Apache Airflow. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in Apache Airflow to join our Batch Operations team.
This is a platform engineering role that presents an opportunity to provide Airflow as a Service and enable hundreds of internal users to coordinate diverse workflows across multiple marketplace domains! You will build foundational platform capabilities and craft how thousands of workflows provide business value across eBay’s global marketplace.
 

• Develop, deploy, and maintain Airflow-as-a-service to fulfill eBay’s batch processing demands, ensuring consistent availability and security.

• Lead the deployment and management of Airflow clusters, focusing on reliability and scalability.

• Design and implement observability, monitoring, and operational solutions to offer deep insights into DAG/task executions and system health.

• Evaluate, spec, and implement feature gap between UC4 and Airflow.

• Automate and maintain operational standards across multiple environments.

• Support horizontal scaling and high availability across cloud infrastructure clusters.
   

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field plus 7 or more years of experience or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field with 5 years of software engineering experience

• Demonstrated experience in providing Apache Airflow as a managed service within enterprise settings supporting extensive user groups.

• Expertise in architecting, managing, and scaling Airflow deployments in Kubernetes or cloud environments, including operational challenges, synchronization of DAG or equivalent experience, and multi-region failover.

• Deep familiarity with workflow automation patterns, enterprise scheduler migration, and bridging legacy-platform feature gaps.

• Proven success developing observability and operational tools (metrics, monitoring, dashboards, alerting, log analysis) for workflow orchestration platforms.

• Excellent technical leadership, initiative, and collaboration skills; thrive in fast paced, high-impact modernization programs.

• Familiarity with Automic Enterprise Scheduler is a plus.
   

Additional Details

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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