Senior Data Scheduling Infra Developer

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We are the Unified Data Platform Team at eBay, responsible for the scalability, performance, and reliability of our Analytics Platform. Our mission is to improve availability, security, and orchestration across large-scale data and AI workflows.

As a Senior Data Scheduling Infra Developer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and operating a high-performance job scheduling and execution engine built on Airflow. This includes customizing, enhancing, and extending Airflow to meet eBay’s needs, while collaborating closely with the open-source community to contribute patches, influence roadmap direction, and advance the state of workflow orchestration at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze, customize, and enhance Apache Airflow's source code to develop new features and improve existing functionalities and performance.

• Collaborate with the Airflow community by contributing patches, enhancements, and fixes.

• Implement best practices for Airflow architecture, including security, scalability, and performance optimization.

• Develop and optimize complex Airflow DAGs and Operators for data processing and orchestration.

• Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in Airflow and related technologies.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. Advanced degree preferred.

• 5+ years of experience in software development, with a strong focus on Python.

• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Airflow, including DAG and Operator development.

• Strong understanding of cloud platforms and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Experience with CI/CD tools and practices.

• Demonstrated proficiency building production-grade software with AI coding agents, improving engineering velocity while maintaining high standards for quality, availability, and maintainability.
• Ability to decompose problems and provide agents with the right context, specifications, constraints, and validation criteria.
• Ability to capture and express business, architecture, codebase, and operational knowledge so AI coding agents can execute complex tasks accurately and autonomously.
• Hands-on experience delivering complex, production-quality software using AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, etc.

Preferred Qualifications as a plus:

• Deep understanding of Apache Airflow architecture and internals, with proven experience in customizing its source code.

• Experience as a contributor or committer to the Apache Airflow project or similar open-source projects.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with both internal teams and the open-source community.

• Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Flink.

Additional Details

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