Software Test Engineer jobs in Ireland

What you will accomplish:

• Proactive Monitoring : Continuously monitor the health of eBay's critical services to identify and address potential issues before they escalate.

• Solution Development : Collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, and Operations teams to develop solutions that ensure high site availability, reliability and performance.

• Collaborative Problem Solving : Work closely with partner teams to resolve recurring technical issues, onboard new alerts, and develop high-quality Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

• Enhance Monitoring Tools : Build and improve tools for monitoring and mitigating site incidents, and conduct reliability audits and tests to strengthen eBay’s reliability and incident management capabilities.

• Incident Management

What you will bring:

• 4+ years of professional experience in software engineering, ideally in backend or platform teams

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, Go, Python)

• Strong incident management and leadership skills, with excellent technical triage and troubleshooting abilities, especially during crises.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code tools

• Experience with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry)

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments.

: As part of the operation staff members of the SEC work a fixed shift. This position is for a day shift (7:00 AM to 5:00 PM) in our Dublin, Ireland location. Team members will work four days in a row in 10 hour shifts, with no on call responsibilities.

As a on the Dublin team, you’ll play a key role in building, optimizing, and maintaining our Hadoop-based data warehouse and large-scale data pipelines. This is a hands-on engineering role where you’ll collaborate closely with data engineers, analysts, and platform teams to ensure our data platforms are scalable, reliable, and secure.

What you will accomplish

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines using Hadoop and related ecosystems.

• Implement and optimize ETL processes for both batch and streaming data needs across analytics platforms.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with analytics, product, and engineering teams to align technical solutions with business priorities.

• Ensure data security, reliability, and compliance across the entire infrastructure lifecycle.

• Troubleshoot distributed systems and contribute to performance tuning, observability, and operational excellence.

• Continuously learn and apply new open-source and cloud-native tools to improve data systems and processes.

What you will bring

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, with a strong foundation in distributed data systems.

• Proficiency with Apache Kafka, Flink, Hive, Iceberg, and Spark SQL in large-scale environments.

• Working knowledge of Apache Airflow for orchestration and workflow management.

• Strong programming skills in Python , Java (Spring Boot) , and SQL across various platforms (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server).

• Experience with CI/CD, monitoring, and cloud-native tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana).

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).

The cool part

• Work on one of eBay’s most impactful data infrastructure platforms, supporting global analytics and insights.

• Join a collaborative, innovative engineering culture that embraces open-source and continuous learning.

• Solve complex, high-scale data challenges that directly shape how eBay makes data-driven decisions.

What you will accomplish

• Lead the architecture and technical direction for eBay’s next-generation Core Data Platform.

• Design and develop distributed backend systems for data processing at massive scale.

• Optimize real-time and batch data services for performance, availability, and cost efficiency.

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end data solutions that enable AI, search, and marketplace insights.

• Champion engineering excellence through automation, observability, and reliable service design.

• Mentor engineers and help foster an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing team culture.

What you will bring

• 8+ years of experience in backend or distributed systems engineering, ideally within data platform or infrastructure domains.

• Proficiency in Java, Scala, or Go , with strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, and system design.

• Expertise in distributed data systems such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, or HDFS.

• Experience designing and operating large-scale services on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, or private cloud).

• Understanding of data governance, cataloging, and orchestration frameworks .

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical strategy across diverse teams.

The cool part

• Shape the future of eBay’s global Core Data Platform, enabling real-time AI and analytics innovation.

• Solve complex data challenges at global scale with a team passionate about performance and resilience.

• Work in a culture that values craftsmanship, diversity, and open-source collaboration.

• Design and maintain scalable IAM and Kubernetes RBAC solutions to govern secure access for users and services.

• Build automation and diagnostic tools in Go and Java to streamline platform operations and boost reliability.

• Partner with global security teams to embed regulatory requirements such as NYDFS and GDPR into development workflows.

• Architect observability frameworks that deliver deep visibility into application health and security posture.

• Identify and close system-level gaps to improve platform resilience and security compliance.

• Champion secure design principles and operational excellence across the cloud platform.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Linux systems, including deep knowledge of kernel internals (scheduling, memory management, file systems, networking).

• Strong programming skills in C++, Go, or Python.

• Proven experience with IAM systems and Kubernetes RBAC; understanding of compliance frameworks such as GDPR and NYDFS.

• Expertise in managing containerized workloads and building scalable, secure cloud systems.

• Problem-solver with the ability to identify cross-functional issues and drive end-to-end resolutions.

• Experience mentoring others, leading small-scale initiatives, and collaborating across teams.

• Security-first mindset in both design and operations.

• Collaborate with multi-functional engineering teams to deliver the platform and contribute to open-source projects.

• Work on building a very resilient distributed system at eBay's edges that can proxy all eBay traffic and also eBay's service mesh for all of our services with unparalleled observability.

• Work with other developers in different phases of system development.

• Build and debug large scale distributed systems and help with observability and monitoring of the system.

• Contribute your knowledge and experience of the networking topology (TCP and HTTP stack) to solve any network related issues encountered by the system, deploying and troubleshooting large scale infrastructure.

• Hands-on development experience with strong analytical skills.

• Familiarity and proven understanding of networking technologies like BGP, anycast is a must, experience with TCP/IP networking and familiarity with TCP, UDP, SSL and HTTP Protocols.

• Hands-on experience with various programming languages like C/C++, GoLang to build the system and also build automation around it for better observability and remediation, any experience with kernel programming and experience with Python is a plus!

• Distributed systems with design and implementation of network communication using container networking technologies.

• Multi-threaded programming: Telemetry infrastructure to accumulate and export statistical information.

• Excellent debugging and triaging skills and strong expertise in agile development.

• Familiarity with L4 Networking layer and Kubernetes is a plus.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute all stages of the physical design flow, including:

• Synthesis

• Floorplanning

• Place and Route (P&R)

• Clock Tree Synthesis (CTS)

• Routing

• Static Timing Analysis (STA)

• Power and clock distribution

• Reliability and noise analysis

• Perform verification and signoff tasks such as:

• Formal equivalence verification

• Static and dynamic power integrity checks

• Layout verification

• Electrical Rule Checking (ERC)

• Analyze design results and recommend fixes for violations to support current and future product architectures.

• Optimize designs for power, performance, and area (PPA).

• Contribute to the development and automation of physical design methodologies and flows.

Required Skills & Experience

• Low power design techniques

• Physical/structural design flow

• Timing constraints

• Timing closure and physical clock design

• Proficiency with industry-standard EDA tools

• Bachelor’s (NFQ 8) or Master’s( NFQ 9)degree in Engineering or equivalent