About the Position:
At eBay, our systems scale to billions of transactions per day, and we run our site 24x7 with 99.99% reliability. We are leaders in cloud computing, SOA, search, and many other specialties. We love technology, open source, and interacting with the technology community.
- Develop Kernel features such as new programming APIs over supporting infrastructure (HTTP transport, threading, software initialization, etc.).
- Develop and support kernel technology stacks for the eBay engineering teams and any other customers
- Help advance eBay technical culture and the technical industry through presentations, blogging, conferences, and other social participation.
- Interface with vendors and the open source community to get features and bug fixes in supporting 3rd party software.
- The usual engineering activities such as scoping, prioritizing, planning, development, test, bug fix, documentation and having fun.
- Expert in Java: especially profiling/tuning, garbage collection, JMX; long track record of challenging systems level Java development
- Expert in J2EE specification and usage patterns: especially Servlets, JSP, Java Beans, JDBC
- Expert in multi-threading concepts: deadlock, starvation, J2EE thread allocation, thread safety, concurrency design patterns
- 8+ years experience working with large-scale server side development in a production environment, especially J2EE web server development
- Experience working with other organizations such as Operations, Load & Performance, Security, Build/Release, QA and Training
- Knowledge of software processes and lifecycle; agile methodology experience preferred
- Relational database experience is a strong plus
Contact me if you are interested in hearing more!!!