Engineering Manager (Cloud Infra)

What you will accomplish: Leadership & People Management Lead and mentor a team of cloud engineers, fostering a strong culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. Conduct regular one-on-one meetings with team members, providing guidance, feedback, and support for their career development. Lead performance evaluations and provide constructive feedback and actively participate in all phases of growing the engineering organization through recruiting, team building, etc. Cloud Engineering, Operations & Governance: Lead and coordinate engineering activities to successfully plan, communicate, and deliver on product features on time while designing for quality, observability, and scalability. Ensure full software lifecycle instrumentation from requirement ideation to software development to deployment. Drive the adoption of cloud-native technologies and standard processes, such as containerization, service mesh, microservices, etc. Collaboration with internal partners and team members: Cloud engineering and operations teams, product, and PMO on engineering resource allocation and project schedules in accordance with our strategic organizational priorities. Cloud SRE team to champion automation to enhance efficiency and reliability. Operations teams on maintaining a highly available cloud infrastructure to ensure eBay s products and services are available to our customers. Fleet management team on capacity planning, resource allocation, and cost optimization for the private cloud. Information security teams to ensure integrity and compliance of the cloud infrastructure by implementing appropriate security controls and monitoring. Required Qualifications Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. 10+ years of software engineering experience , including 3+ years of people management or technical leadership . Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to bridge technical and design perspectives. Strong technical background with a deep understanding of cloud-native architectures and technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, containerization, service mesh, microservices). Demonstrated knowledge of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices. Experience with software development, networking, security, and storage technologies in a large-scale cloud environment. Experience working in large, distributed global teams and supporting medium or large-scale technology organizations with multiple internal partners. Nice-to-Have Skills Direct experience with customizing and maintaining Linux operating system kernels for large-scale, high-performance computing platforms. Experience in capacity planning, resource allocation, and cost optimization for large private cloud infrastructure. Knowledge of software development, networking, security, and storage technologies in a cloud environment and proven understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, and DevOps and SRE principles. Deep expertise in implementing and championing automation to enhance efficiency and reliability, particularly in collaboration with SRE teams. Professional certifications related to Kubernetes (e.g., CKA, CKS) or cloud infrastructure. Proven ability to work closely with Information Security teams on compliance, security controls, and monitoring for cloud infrastructure. Understanding of developer experience (DX) principles for API-driven platforms. Strong product mindset balancing security rigor with customer empathy and usability.