Machine Learning Engineer (T25)

Location: Bengaluru, India

Category: Engineering

About the Role

Join eBay's Product Knowledge team as a Machine Learning Engineer (T25) in Bengaluru, India, at the heart of redefining global e-commerce. This role focuses on leveraging eBay's vast Big Data ecosystem—including listings, transactions, products, and knowledge graphs—to power innovative, customer-centric features for millions of buyers and sellers across 190 markets. You'll tackle epic-scale challenges like building ML pipelines processing billions of items, creating low-latency search services, and integrating with customer-facing applications to enhance the eBay marketplace experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deliver, and maintain significant features in data pipelines, ML processing, and service infrastructure for eBay's Product Knowledge system
• Optimize software performance to achieve required throughput and latency on datasets of hundreds of millions of e-commerce items
• Build pipelines processing billions of listings, transactions, and products using ML models
• Create low-latency services for Search and Information Retrieval on massive eBay datasets
• Craft sound API designs and drive integration between data layers and customer-facing e-commerce applications
• Design and run A/B tests in production to measure impact of new ML-driven features
• Work with managers, peers, and Product Managers to scope projects aligned with eBay's marketplace goals
• Develop technical strategies considering project goals, timelines, and e-commerce impact
• Lead cross-team efforts to solve business problems in eBay's global commerce platform
• Participate in knowledge sharing across eBay's engineering organization
• Handle complexity in Big Data systems powering eBay's product knowledge graphs

Required Qualifications

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
• 4+ years of software design and development experience in backend services and/or data pipelines
• Solid foundation in Data Structures, Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, Software Design, and core Statistics
• Production-grade coding experience in Java, and Python/Scala
• Experience in designing and operating Big Data processing pipelines such as Hadoop and Spark
• Experience in close examination of data and computation of statistics
• Passion and commitment for technical excellence
• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience deploying Machine Learning models on billions of items in e-commerce datasets
• Knowledge of knowledge graphs, listings, and transactions in large-scale marketplaces
• Experience with low-latency Search and Information Retrieval services
• Background in A/B testing for production experiences in eBay-like platforms
• Cross-team leadership in solving complex e-commerce business problems
• Proficiency in optimizing ML pipelines for e-commerce scale

Required Skills

• Java
• Python
• Scala
• Hadoop
• Spark
• Data Structures
• Algorithms
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Software Design
• Statistics
• Big Data pipelines
• Machine Learning model deployment
• Low-latency services
• API design
• A/B testing
• Data analysis
• Collaboration
• Communication

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary
• Stock grants
• Yearly bonus
• Healthy work culture promoting business impact and personal well-being
• Opportunities for learning, impact, and career growth in a collaborative team
• Part of a force for good, with eBay's commitment to employees, customers, and global population
• Equal opportunity employment with accommodations for disabilities
• Supportive environment valuing authenticity, bold ideas, and unique contributions

eBay Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.