Senior Software Engineer, Go/Golang

eBay

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Jose, CA
Salary
$172,000–$229,600 / yr
Posted
6 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Go/Golang

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer - Go/Golang The Senior Software Engineer - Go/Golang joins the Observability Platform team to build and operate infrastructure for monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving the reliability of large-scale distributed systems. This role involves designing and building high-performance backend services in Golang to power the telemetry lifecycle, including ingestion, processing, storage, and querying for metrics, logs, and traces. The engineer will develop high-throughput systems, strengthen Kubernetes-based production systems through self-healing patterns, and improve the maintainability of distributed systems supporting hyperscale workloads. Key technologies include Golang, Prometheus, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana. The work focuses on solving complex reliability challenges for thousands of microservices, processing billions of time series and petabytes of log data to provide robust platform capabilities and developer-friendly tools in a cloud-native environment.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant backend services in Golang for the observability platform.
  • Develop high-throughput systems for ingesting, storing, and querying logs, metrics, and traces.
  • Improve the performance and reliability of distributed systems supporting hyperscale observability workloads.
  • Strengthen Kubernetes-based production systems using self-healing patterns, autoscaling, and resilient service design.
  • Translate observability needs into robust platform capabilities and developer-friendly tools for service owners.
  • Contribute to architecture reviews, production readiness efforts, and post-incident improvements.
  • Evolve engineering standards and best practices for Go-based services in cloud-native environments.
  • Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to support production reliability.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of experience in software engineering, backend infrastructure, or distributed systems engineering.
  • Strong hands-on programming expertise in Golang for building reliable, scalable backend or infrastructure services.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts including scalability, concurrency, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating production services in Kubernetes or similar cloud-native environments.
  • Strong knowledge of observability concepts including metrics, logs, traces, telemetry pipelines, and production monitoring.
  • Experience with technologies such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Grafana, or similar observability and data infrastructure tools.
  • Familiarity with high-throughput data pipelines, time-series systems, and large-scale microservices environments.
  • Experience contributing to open-source infrastructure or building internal developer platforms (preferred).

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