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Distinguished MTS - Seller Engineering
Ebay INC · 🇺🇸 San Jose
Sponsorship verdict
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 478 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 314 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Ebay INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles3 certified filings for “MTS 1, Network Engineering” (Network and Computer Systems Administrators) in CA: $190k–$190k, median $190k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 478 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 314 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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. The Role Reporting directly to the VP of Engineering, C2C & Seller Experiences, you will serve as a lead technical visionary for the platforms and architectures that empower millions of C2C and professional sellers globally. As a Distinguished MTS, you are a high-impact technical individual contributor responsible for the end-to-end architectural integrity and technical strategy of the Seller journey. In this role, you will define how we build, scale, and transform a high-scale legacy environment into a modern, decoupled ecosystem across Web Front-End, Native Mobile (iOS & Android), and Backend architectures (primarily Kotlin and Java, with a strategic migration away from legacy Scala). You are a practitioner-leader who balances high-level strategic design with hands-on execution, ensuring our systems are optimized for flow efficiency and colleague engagement. Your Responsibilities • Outcome-Led Architecture : Move beyond "feature factory" thinking. You will define technical strategies based on Outcome Hypotheses, measuring success through Better Value Sooner Safer Happier (BVSSH) metrics—prioritizing quality, unique business outcomes, time-to-learning, continuous compliance, and developer joy. • Legacy Transformation & Modernization: Lead the architectural evolution of our core commerce systems. You will create and execute the roadmap to transform highly coupled monolithic services into a modern, distributed architecture, ensuring business continuity while radically improving system maintainability and deployment safety. • Domain-Driven Design (DDD) & Descaling : Lead the evolution of our domain boundaries. You will apply the pattern of " Achieve Big through Small"—descaling complex systems into clean, bounded contexts that minimize cognitive load and allow multidisciplinary teams to deliver independently. • Client-Oriented Decoupling : Leverage Federated GraphQL to drive consumer-driven contracts. You will architect the graph to empower Web and Native Mobile teams to iterate rapidly and independently of backend release cycles, ensuring a flexible and performant data layer. • Optimize for Flow & Learning: Architect for flow efficiency, identifying and alleviating systemic impediments like waits and handoffs. You will enable fast, safe-to-fail experiments across our JVM-based services to maximize the "speed to learning." • Psychological Safety as a Foundation : Cultivate an environment of Psychological Safety where intelligent failure is celebrated as learning. You will lead by example, encouraging experimentation and a "blameless" culture where every engineer feels empowered to innovate and challenge the status quo. • Hands-on Practitioner: You lead by doing. You will write code, build foundational frameworks, and establish the "prior art" (patterns) that help our global engineering teams avoid common anti-patterns during the transformation journey. Required Qualifications • Education: Master’s degree in Computer Science, or a Bachelor’s degree with equivalent high-level architectural experience. • Experience : 15–20+ years of r