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Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

Location: Remote (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. Members of this team 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.

Our team prides itself on a culture that fosters camaraderie, embraces diversity, and exudes passion! We are one of New York State’s 50 best employers and Fortune.com’s top 100 companies for women in the U.S.
 

What you will accomplish:

• Act as a subject matter expert for use of ElasticSearch and/or OpenSearch technologies from a holistic perspective including both system administration and application design.

• Collaborate with other teams to ensure that data architectures and data flow designs utilize best practices enabling scalability, reliability, and efficiency, particularly for capabilities such as search engines, auto-suggestions, recommendation engines, and merchandising/personalization.

• Guide selection of appropriate datastore technologies for new and replatformed applications with an emphasis on search applications.

• Consult on database design for the structures within an application’s datastores with an emphasis on search applications.

• Provide leadership on cross-application datastore-related projects such as ones relating to security, software currency, and platform migrations.

• Research emerging capabilities in both the datastores TCGplayer uses and the marketplace as a whole to help guide long-term planning in the domain.

What you will bring:

•  Mastery of ElasticSearch. Experience with ElasticSearch hosted within the AWS OpenSearch product offering preferred.

• Significant experience with one or more other datastore technologies. PostgreSQL, Mongo, and Redis are preferred. 

• Significant experience in designing datastores, data architectures, and data flows for microservice-oriented search systems which are scalable, reliable, and efficient. Experience with Kafka is a plus.

• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, including ability to adapt messaging as appropriate for varying audiences.

• Strong ability to influence through collaboration across functional roles and levels within the organization.

• Familiarity with working in a cloud-first environment. AWS preferred.

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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TCGplayer, a subsidiary company of 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, and disability, or other legally protected status.  If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at careers@tcgplayer.com.  We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible. View our accessibility info to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. For more information see: EEO is the Law Poster and EEO is the Law Poster Supplement.

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