Director of Engineering, Buyer Engg

At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.

Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.

Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

What you’ll do — key responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision and multi-year roadmap in alignment with the org strategy.

• Lead, mentor and scale engineering leaders (Directors / Senior Managers) and their teams across architecture, platform, and product engineering.

• Deliver high quality, reliable products— set priorities, remove blockers, and ensure engineering execution across multiple teams and geographies.

• Establish and operationalize engineering standards: architecture and system design reviews, SLOs/SLIs, incident management, CI/CD, testing, and observability.

• Own engineering efficiency metrics and engineering budget (headcount, contractors, vendor spend), including prioritisation.

• Drive hiring, retention, talent development, succession planning and performance calibration for senior engineering roles.

• Partner closely with Product, Build, Data Science, Security and Business collaborators to align priorities and deliver measurable business outcomes.

• Be accountable for technical risk management — security, compliance, vendor risk, technical debt and scalability.

• Represent the org externally for key hires, vendor negotiations and major cross-org initiatives.

• Develop an inclusive culture that encourages continuous learning, experimentation and data-driven decision making.

What success looks like

• High availability and latency improvements against agreed SLOs for core systems.

• Predictable delivery of major achievements and product launches (timely, within scope).

• Improved engineering productivity metrics (cycle time, deployment frequency, mean time to recover).

• Successful hiring and retention of senior technical talent; reduction in time-to-fill for critical roles.

• Clear architecture roadmap and measurable reduction in technical debt.

• Strong multi-functional collaboration and partner happiness.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 4+ years in people leadership (managing managers) at scale.

• Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams (50+ engineers) building distributed systems, high-traffic services or platform infrastructure.

• Strong technical background (system design, cloud architecture, data platforms, performance and security).

• Experience scaling engineering organizations in India (hiring, local talent market dynamics, campus/recruiting).

• Proven success in hiring, mentoring and developing senior leaders.

• Track record driving measurable improvements in reliability, delivery and engineering productivity.

• Excellent collaborator management — able to influence product, business and senior leadership.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in marketplace / e-commerce / payments or consumer internet companies.

• Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, and large data platforms.

• An MBA or equivalent experience in business is required.

• Prior experience with regulatory/compliance requirements relevant to the product area.

Additional Details

eBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at talent@ebay.com. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.

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