Data Engineer

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. Job Description About the team and role: Depop is a peer-to-peer circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover secondhand fashion. Depop's mission is simple: to make fashion circular by making secondhand as exciting and rewarding as buying new. Founded in 2011, Depop’s diverse community has helped move resale into the mainstream, where buying secondhand is no longer an alternative, but how people of different ages now engage with fashion. Today, more than 56 million registered users come to Depop to find great value, express their own personal style and give clothes a longer life. We believe that everything you want already exists, and our role is to help people discover it. From everyday essentials to vintage and designer finds, Depop brings together a wide range of affordable styles in one place. It’s a marketplace where anyone can clear out their wardrobe or build a business, explore their style, and take part in a more circular way to shop. Powered by a team of over 500 people, our company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York. For more information, visit our News Room here. We are looking for a talented and passionate Data Engineer to join our team and help build scalable, reliable data solutions that power critical experiences across eBay. In this role, you will architect, design, and develop high-performance real-time and batch data pipelines that process massive volumes of data. You will help build the infrastructure that enables real-time insights, analytics, and personalized experiences for millions of users across the eBay marketplace. You will work with modern data technologies including Kafka, Flink, Spark, Databricks, Airflow, dbt, and AWS, solving challenging engineering problems where scalability, performance, reliability, and data accuracy are essential. You will own projects throughout the engineering lifecycle and collaborate closely with Data Science, Product, and Engineering teams to translate complex requirements into robust data solutions. What you will accomplish: • Build data pipelines at scale: Design, develop, and operate robust real-time and batch data pipelines using Kafka, Spark, and Flink to process large volumes of data efficiently and reliably. • Develop reliable data workflows: Build and manage complex workflow orchestration using Airflow, ensuring data is processed accurately and available when downstream systems and teams need it. • Improve data quality and trust: Implement and maintain automated data quality and validation frameworks using technologies such as Monte Carlo, Great Expectations, or similar tools. • Build cloud-native data solutions: Leverage Databricks and AWS to develop scalable data platforms and services that improve developer productivity, system performance, and operational efficiency. • Develop scalable transformations: Build maintainable data transformation workflows using dbt and establish reusable patterns for producing high-quality datasets. • Own projects end-to-end: Drive major data engineering initiatives from architecture and