Jobs / United States / Ebay INC
GitHub Enterprise Platform Engineer
Ebay INC · 🇺🇸 San Jose
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
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 roles176 certified filings for “MTS 1, Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $186k–$240k, median $211k. Most were filed at wage level III (46%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% 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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Sponsor Radar — Ebay INC
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. About the team and the role: The Engineering Systems Tools team powers how eBay engineers build, test, and ship software at scale. We develop, operate, and evolve the internal platforms that thousands of developers rely on every day to deliver secure, high-quality experiences to buyers and sellers around the world. As a Senior GitHub Enterprise Platform Engineer, you will serve as a hands-on technical leader for eBay’s GitHub Enterprise ecosystem. You will own the platform's reliability, security, and usability. You will develop standards and self-service experiences that help engineering teams collaborate effectively. Your work will enable confident code reviews and safe automation of workflows at scale. This is an individual contributor role with broad influence across engineering, security, product, and infrastructure teams, and a strong opportunity to improve developer efficiency across eBay. What you will accomplish: • Own and evolve eBay’s GitHub Enterprise platform to deliver a highly available, secure, and scalable experience for thousands of engineers. • Define and implement platform standards for repositories, branching, code review, and policy enforcement that improve engineering velocity while supporting security and compliance goals. • Partner closely with Identity and Security teams to strengthen access management through SSO, SCIM, and role-based controls, enabling scalable, auditable, and least-privilege access. • Build automation, APIs, bots, and tools guided by rules that simplify onboarding, repository lifecycle management, and fleet-wide platform changes. • Improve platform reliability by implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, and root-cause analysis across GitHub Enterprise Server and its underlying database systems. • Lead upgrades, migrations, and multi-functional platform improvements while advising engineering teams on standard methodologies through documentation, consultation, and enablement. What you will bring: • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering in a large-scale environment, including significant hands-on work with Git-based platforms. • Deep experience coordinating GitHub Enterprise Server and/or GitHub Enterprise Cloud at scale, including repository and organization management, security controls, auditability, runners, and integrations. • Strong programming or scripting skills in Python, Java, or similar languages, with experience using REST/GraphQL APIs, webhooks, and infrastructure-as-code to automate platform operations. • Experience integrating GitHub with CI/CD, artifact, and quality or security tooling such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube, or similar platforms. • Solid understanding of identity and access management concepts including SSO, SAML, SCIM, RBAC, and least-privilege access, and how to apply them to developer collaboration platforms. • Strong solving and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work across distributed systems, databases, cloud or container environments, and multi-functional