Staff Streaming/Messaging Infra Engineer
eBay (company site, opens in a new tab)BengaluruOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 45–85 LPA
Posted 27d ago
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About This Role
- Own the architecture, building, and operation of eBay’s core streaming platform control plane and data plane using Apache Flink and Apache Kafka across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
- Lead the design and development of real-time streaming lakehouse storage architecture for low-latency, large-scale analytical workloads.
- Drive high availability, automated fault recovery, zero-downtime operations, and enhance system observability including monitoring and alerting for large-scale production streaming topologies.
Minimum Requirements
- Strong expertise in Java, Rust, or C++ and deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals (data structures, concurrency, OS internals, networking).
- Hands-on experience with Apache Flink production development, tuning, and operation at scale, including checkpointing and Flink Kubernetes Operator.
- Proven experience with Apache Kafka (or similar like Pulsar/RocketMQ), including broker architecture and control/data plane management.
- Experience running high-throughput stateful streaming workloads on Kubernetes across multi-cluster or private cloud infrastructures. Work Experience Required: Not explicitly mentioned in the JD.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Technical leader with deep practical experience in distributed streaming systems spanning Flink and Kafka at scale in production environments.
- Experienced architect capable of designing multi-cluster, high-availability streaming platforms and evolving streaming lakehouse storage systems.
- Familiar with modern streaming table formats/storage engines (e.g., Apache Paimon, Apache Iceberg) and comfortable working with containerized, multi-cluster Kubernetes infrastructure.