Senior Software Engineer, Go/Golang
eBay
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This role pays more than 83% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$180,250 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $201k versus about $166k for comparable roles.
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eBay is a global e-commerce company that operates an online marketplace connecting buyers and sellers for a wide range of new and used goods.
eBay currently has 46 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $160,800–$228,600 across 45 roles with salary data.
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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 position addresses the technical challenge of processing billions of time series and petabytes of log data across thousands of microservices, ensuring operational excellence and reliability for business-critical infrastructure within a cloud-native environment.
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