Senior Director Eng, Buyer & Community

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 be responsible for 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 capacity planning, engineering productivity metrics, and engineering budget (headcount, contractors, vendor spend).

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

- Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Security and Business stakeholders 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.