eBay

MTS 1, Software Engineer

San Jose

Sponsorship not specified$172k-$230kDetected 9 days ago

TypeScriptJavaNode.jsDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentData ScienceLLMsA/B TestingIncident ResponseAccessibilityCommunicationMentoring

About the role

Engineers in this organization are expected to use modern AI-enabled practices effectively.
In this role, that includes applying AI where it can improve product quality, operational efficiency, and engineering productivity.
We use data, modern software architectures, and AI-native engineering practices to solve risk challenges at scale across detection, decisioning, automation, and operational workflows.

Design, build, test, deploy, and support production-ready AI-enabled systems that solve real customer and business problems in Risk Engineering.
Build end-to-end services and workflows that combine LLMs, retrieval, tool use, structured outputs, deterministic logic, and human review where appropriate.
Develop scalable backend services, APIs, and integrations that support risk decisioning, investigation, and automation use cases.
Translate business and operational needs into clear technical designs, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
Own a functional area end to end, including implementation, launch readiness, observability, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
Define and maintain quality bars for AI behavior through task-level evaluations, offline and online metrics, regression detection, and release criteria.
Drive operational readiness through fallback strategies, rollback paths, incident handling, and runbooks.
Partner with engineering, product, data science, analytics, and operations teams to deliver robust, well-governed solutions.
Contribute high-quality code, design documents, and test plans, and raise engineering standards through thoughtful reviews and documentation.
You will work on high-impact systems that help make commerce safer at scale, while building practical AI-enabled capabilities that improve customer experience, operational efficiency, and business performance.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Strong proficiency in the backend languages such as Java, Nodejs, TypeScript and Python.
Strong understanding of APIs, service integrations, data flows, logging, monitoring, and production debugging
familiarity with distributed systems concepts.
Demonstrated ability to make sound engineering trade-offs across reliability, latency, scalability, cost, and developer velocity.

Experience working with evaluation workflows for AI outputs, including automated graders, benchmark tasks, error analysis, or human-in-the-loop review.
Familiarity with search, retrieval, ranking, embeddings, or other knowledge-grounded AI patterns.
Familiarity with secure execution practices, scoped credentials, auditability, and safe handling of AI-driven actions.
Experience using AI to improve engineering workflows, including development, testing, debugging, or operational tooling.
Experience instrumenting and improving systems through monitoring, experimentation, and iterative analysis of failures or regressions.
Experience in fraud, trust, payments, risk, or other decisioning-heavy domains is a plus.
mentoring experience is a plus.
This role is ideal for an engineer who wants to apply GenAI in production with strong engineering rigor, clear quality bars, and real-world impact.

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience.
$172,000 - $229,600
The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave).
If hired, employees will be in an "at-will position" and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

Global Payments and Risk builds products and platforms that enable safer, more trusted commerce experiences.
This team operates highly scalable systems with meaningful customer and business impact.
We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to build and operate the platforms and services that enable smarter risk decisions, seamless automation, and resilient workflows at scale.
In this hands-on role, you will deliver scalable, reliable, and secure software systems that drive meaningful business impact across Risk Engineering.
This is a hands-on, applied software engineering role with end-to-end ownership for builders who want to design, ship, and operate real systems in production.
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.
Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work - every day.

eBay is an equal opportunity employer.
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.

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