Ebay Senior Director Cloud Engineering 

United States, California, San Jose 

185785302

We are seeking a Cloud Engineering Director to lead our Traffic team within the Infrastructure Engineering Organization. This dynamic and motivated team of software engineers is united by a common mission, tackling complex challenges on a global scale. In this key leadership position, you will help shape our engineering strategy and roadmap, translating business requirements into actionable implementation phases. Additionally, you will play an active role in recruiting as we expand our team across various geographic locations.

What you will accomplish:

Drive Operational Excellence with AI: Champion our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, leveraging advanced AI/ML techniques to identify new opportunities for global operational efficiency and predictive intelligence across our vast infrastructure.

Ensure End-to-End Quality: Own the full software lifecycle instrumentation, from initial requirements gathering to robust software development and seamless deployment, ensuring quality, observability, and scalability are built-in from day one.

What You Will Bring:

• 15+ years of progressive industry experience with a deep focus on large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, and/or cloud engineering.
• 10+ years in senior leadership roles within the technology sector, ideally managing global, geographically distributed software development and operations teams.
• Proven expertise in Software-Defined Infrastructure and Software-Defined Networking.
• Demonstrated experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and building highly resilient, scalable systems.
• Experience leveraging AI/ML to drive operational insights, productivity, automation, or efficiency improvements in infrastructure.
• Exceptional ability to lead organizational change management, influence executive stakeholders, and drive consensus in complex, cross-functional environments.
• Expertise in modern global software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, DevOps).
• Superior communication skills, with a track record of clearly articulating critical technical updates and strategies to diverse audiences, including C-level leadership.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) and traffic engineering.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and related container orchestration technologies.
• Experience with service mesh implementations.
• Leadership in open-source projects related to cloud infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of networking, cybersecurity principles, and related fields within a cloud context.
• Experience operating and scaling platforms in high-traffic, global, and exceptionally large-scale environments.
• Familiarity with multiple programming languages, including C++, Java, or Python.

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below: