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Fully Remote - within the United States

About the team and the role: 
TCGplayer connects hobbyists and hobby businesses to communities. We relentlessly improve the exchange of things and thoughts that fuel passions, providing the most compelling destination and tools for collectible card game enthusiasts and professional sellers! TCGplayer, now a part of eBay, promotes and drives growth of our products and services by connecting a global community of millions of buyers with tens of thousands of retailers in a $25B global collectible hobby market.

The Data Engineering team collaborates across the TCGplayer Technology organization to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the organization’s use of datastore technologies. As a member of this team, you will be a leader in the organization’s quest to continually improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of the datastores which power the company’s applications. You will partner with other teams to define appropriate datastore infrastructure for applications, create efficient and scalable database and data flow designs, resolve scaling or performance challenges as they arise in existing systems, and generally support effective datastore usage in aspects such as data architecture, data governance, data lifecycle management, software currency, and security.

As a Principal Data Engineer, you will combine your technical knowledge and mastery with the ability to lead larger projects, mentor and guide junior and mid-level members of the Technology organization. In this specific role, you will advocate for optimal data modeling and querying practices for applications built using MongoDB as their datastore.

What you will accomplish:

• Act as a subject matter expert for MongoDB, offering direct guidance and creating materials to help other technologists improve their proficiency with designing and implementing applications using MongoDB 

• Guide selection of appropriate datastore technologies for new and replatformed applications, primarily transactional microservices and event-driven systems, ensuring they meet current and future data needs

• Consult on database design for the structures within an application’s datastores, optimizing for performance and scalability 

• Write minimal yet effective code, primarily database queries, to facilitate data management and manipulation

• Support other engineers and teams with expert advice on the best ways to interface with databases and data storage solutions

• Support the development of data flow strategies and assist in defining data storage requirements for microservices, ensuring alignment with overall system architecture

• Troubleshoot and improve existing database designs and queries to enhance system performance and reliability

• Collaborate with other teams to ensure that data architectures and data flow designs are scalable, reliable, and efficient

• Provide leadership on cross-application datastore-related projects, including those related to 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

• Define and implement data storage strategies for microservices, ensuring each service is supported by a robust and appropriate data management framework

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or a related field, or a combination of education and experience

• 12 years or more experience in designing datastores, data architectures, and data flows which are scalable, reliable, and efficient

• Mastery of both data modeling and query/aggregation design for MongoDB coupled with significant experience with RDBMS technologies, PostgreSQL strongly preferred

• Significant experience designing and implementing datastores for microservices and event-driven applications

• Significant experience with implementing and supporting data governance within medium-to-large organizations

• Strong ability to utilize written and verbal communication skills to influence through collaboration across functional roles and levels across the organization

Before you apply, do you have the following? If not please do not apply.

• 12 years or more experience in designing datastores, data architectures, and data flows
• Expertise and hands on experience with MongoDB
• Hands on experience with RDBMS and NoSQL experience

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