Sr. Data Engineer Manager

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. At eBay, we’re more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform connects millions of buyers and sellers around the world and creates economic opportunity for individuals, entrepreneurs, businesses, and organizations of all sizes. As we continue our tech-led reimagination of the global marketplace, we’re looking for people who are passionate about solving complex problems, building at scale, and creating experiences that make commerce better for everyone. About the team and the role: We are looking for a passionate and experienced Data Engineering Manager to lead a team building scalable, reliable data solutions that power critical experiences across eBay. This team plays a central role in eBay’s data ecosystem, enabling trusted real-time insights, analytics, experimentation, and personalized experiences for millions of customers across the marketplace. As part of this focused C2C strategy, eBay continues to invest in the future of circular commerce and the next generation of conscious consumers. With the recent acquisition of Depop, a leading consumer-to-consumer fashion marketplace with a highly engaged Gen Z and Millennial customer base, eBay is expanding its portfolio of complementary C2C businesses while preserving the distinct brand, community, and product experience that make Depop unique.   In this role, you will lead and grow a team of data engineers responsible for architecting, building, and operating high-performance real-time and batch data pipelines and platforms. You will set technical direction, drive execution across complex initiatives, and partner closely with Product, Data Science, Analytics, and Engineering leaders to translate business priorities into durable, high-quality data solutions. This is an opportunity to combine people leadership, technical depth, and organizational influence in a highly scaled environment. You will help shape modern data engineering practices across technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Spark, Databricks, Airflow, dbt, and AWS, while fostering an inclusive, high-performing team culture focused on innovation, operational excellence, and continuous learning. What you will accomplish: Lead, coach, and develop a team of data engineers, creating an inclusive and high-performing environment where team members grow their technical depth, expand ownership, and deliver meaningful business impact. Drive the design and delivery of scalable real-time and batch data pipelines and platforms that enable trusted, timely, and high-volume data consumption across product, analytics, and machine learning use cases. Define and execute the roadmap for modern data engineering capabilities, including streaming, orchestration, transformation, observability, and cloud-native platform development using technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, dbt, Databricks, and AWS. Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, Analytics, and Engineering teams to prioritize investments, translate evolving requirements into robust technical solutions, and deliver data products that improve customer and business outcomes. Raise the engineering bar by establishing strong practices for architecture, code quality, testing, documentation, operational