TCGplayer (an eBay company)

Data Engineer

• Function as a technical leader and advisor within the data technology field at TCGplayer, nurturing the growth and progress of both the company and individual engineers
• Provide technical expertise and insight as you work with other teams to develop data flow strategies and define storage needs for microservices, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment with system architecture
• Manage cross-application projects for datastores, emphasizing security, software currency, data governance, and platform migrations
• Research emerging capabilities in both the datastores used by the organization and the broader marketplace to inform long-term strategic planning in the data domain
• Consult on database design for the structures within an application’s datastores and queries/aggregations against those structures, optimizing for performance and scalability
• Write minimal yet effective code, primarily database queries to facilitate data management and manipulation and proof-of-concepts for suggested techniques
• Guide selection of appropriate datastore technologies for new and re-platformed apps, focusing on transactional microservices and event-driven systems to meet current and future data needs

Staff Data Engineer

Engineer

• Serve as Incident Commander, leading real-time response efforts, managing communication across teams, triaging issues, and driving resolution of high-priority incidents to minimize downtime and business disruption.
• Execute documented runbooks for troubleshooting and resolving production incidents involving AWS services (EC2, CloudWatch, IAM) and Kubernetes clusters (pods, deployments, scaling).
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams post-incident, performing root cause analysis, documenting lessons learned, and driving the implementation of durable solutions.
• Drive operational excellence by measuring and analyzing critical metrics (e.g., MTTR, SLA adherence) to identify improvement opportunities and implement impactful solutions.
• Continuously refine and update operational runbooks and procedures, ensuring alignment with evolving technologies and business needs.
• Proactively contribute to long-term strategic initiatives to improve incident management practices.

Frontline Engineer

Product Manager

• Leverage your experience to act as a thought leader and driving force for our fulfillment solutions
• Intersect customer needs with our business goals and align cross-departmental teams
• Improve the core product experience for our sellers by focusing on tools and services that enable them to grow
• Support and contribute to key fulfillment initiatives that span multiple workstreams
• Partner with engineering, design, operations, and analytics teams
• Participate in UAT activities, business readiness, and end-to-end testing across fulfillment workflows
• Assist in translating customer needs and operational realities into clear product requirements
• Use qualitative research, customer interactions, and data analysis to inform product decisions

Staff Data Engineer

Frontline Engineer

Product Manager III, Fulfillment