C++ Software Engineer Search Platform

C++ Software Engineer – Search Platform

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At eBay, we are a global e‑commerce leader committed to reinventing the future of shopping worldwide. Our Cassini AI search platform powers most eBay applications, delivering highly relevant, scalable, and performant experiences to millions of users daily.

The Search Platform team builds, optimizes, and extends Cassini, ensuring low latency, high throughput, and cost‑effective operation across billions of requests and documents.

What You Will Accomplish

• Understand, estimate, design, and develop sophisticated software applications in modern C++ (C++17/20+)
• Deliver highly performing, low‑latency, robust code with extensive test coverage, CI/CD integration, and production monitoring
• Participate in code and design reviews, and contribute to architectural decisions
• Optimize development cycles through CI/CD enhancements and AI‑driven tooling
• Triage and debug production incidents, enhancing observability, alerting, and monitoring
• Share knowledge with teammates via documentation and mentoring

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a closely related field, with at least 2 years of proven experience, or equivalent experience in lieu of a degree
• Solid foundational knowledge and practical experience in Information Retrieval and search systems
• Deep, demonstrable expertise using modern C++ standards for high‑performance computing
• Experience building scalable, distributed systems in production environments
• Strong intellectual curiosity and a tenacious drive to solve ambiguous, challenging technical problems
• Experience designing, instrumenting, and maintaining production monitoring, alerting, and observability pipelines

Seniority Level

• Entry level

Employment Type

• Full‑time

Job Function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Technology, Information and Internet

eBay is an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. If you require accommodation, please contact talent@ebay.com.

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