Ebay Hardware Systems Software Engineer 

United States, California, San Jose 

591263749

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• You will work as part of the Hardware Engineering team to reduce the cost of purchasing and operating eBay’s fleet of servers, saving millions of dollars a year.

• You will translate internal customer requests into requirements, and develop benchmarks and test suites to ensure our platforms meet their needs.

• Evaluate the performance and reliability of new hardware platforms and hardware components using automated tests, with a strong emphasis on working with our cloud, provisioning, and storage partners.

• Expand and maintain our automation that we use daily for testing, and reliability work.

• Develop performance test plans and experiments with our customer teams to ensure we are able to use our hardware to the fullest of its ability.

• Work with our customers to debug, and address any reliability or performance issues they have with our server products.

• Identify and suggest the ideal OS and BIOS settings for our systems.

• Explore and propose new hardware/software technologies that improve performance, or reduce cost of our products.

• You will improve our monitoring and data collection tooling, to ensure we’re recording relevant information.

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• You have at least 5-8 years of systems engineering experience using Linux as an operating system.

• You should understand how to configure servers, and work with a standard toolset to automate testing.

• You should be able to explain how linux uses various hardware components, and what tunables it provides.

• We primarily use Python and Bash for automating tasks, you must be proficient in one of these languages.

• You should have experience with kubernetes, and its concepts.

• You should have used a revision control system like GIT, and be familiar with concepts like branching and merging.

• You must bea able to build and use containers using Docker or another technology.

• We’d like you to be familiar with extending a monitoring framework like Prometheus, so we can collect additional data from our testing.

• We’d like for you to be familiar with Kubernetes and cloud computing concepts.

• It would be a bonus if you’ve used various profiling and performance tools like perf, vtune, or performance co-pilot.

• You should understand how to compile and build source code, especially the linux kernel.

• It would be phenomenal if you have experience analyzing logs, and working with data repositories to help drive technical decisions.

• It would be a bonus if you’ve deployed and configured systems at scale using standard technology like PXE, Ansible, Salt, and Puppet.

• You must be able to communicate ideas clearly when speaking or writing.

• BS or equivalent experience EE or CS with continued formal or informal education

• Position ideally based in San Jose, CA with minimal travel required.

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment in California, Washington, or New York is expected in the range below.

$149,200 - $234,850

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