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Sr. Manager, Cloud Traffic Engineering
Ebay INC · 🇺🇸 Austin
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 roles11 certified filings for “Sr. Product Manager 2 - Technical” (Computer and Information Systems Managers) in TX: $190k–$211k, median $198k. Most were filed at wage level II (64%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% 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. * This role cannot offer any sort of visa sponsorship * About the team and the role: At eBay, we connect millions of buyers and sellers around the world. The Cloud Engineering organization build platforms that keep those experiences fast, reliable, secure, and ready to scale. We are hiring an AI-first Senior Manager, Cloud Traffic Engineering, to lead traffic engineering across eBay’s global cloud platform. This leader will shape the strategy, architecture, and operating model for critical traffic systems, including our public-facing edge load-balancer platform and Tess Cloud Networking, with responsibility for both north-south and east-west traffic optimization. In this role, you will lead a team that owns the systems moving traffic safely and efficiently across eBay’s cloud environment. You will partner closely with Cloud Infrastructure, SRE, Security, Developer Platform, application engineering, and product leaders to improve resilience, performance, developer velocity, and cost efficiency at enterprise scale. This is a highly visible leadership role with broad multi-functional influence, responsibility for platform health and execution, and the opportunity to build an AI-enabled organization that advances automation and accelerates the path toward NoOps across globally distributed teams. What you will accomplish: • Define and lead the strategy for eBay’s cloud traffic engineering platforms, evolving edge traffic management, load balancing, service mesh, and traffic policy to improve reliability, scalability, and operational clarity across regions. • Improve the performance and resilience of both north-south and east-west traffic flows across ingress, egress, routing, service-to-service communication, cluster networking, and multi-region dependencies, especially during major business events. • Build an AI-first traffic engineering organization by applying AI and automation to telemetry analysis, anomaly detection, capacity forecasting, change risk assessment, incident response, configuration generation, and operational workflows. • Reduce manual operational effort and advance the platform toward NoOps by introducing intelligent systems and automation that measurably improve deployment safety, flow efficiency, engineering productivity, and recovery outcomes such as MTTR and reliability. • Establish strong engineering standards and operating mechanisms for availability, performance, resilience, security, observability, service ownership, on-call readiness, documentation, and safe production change across teams in the US, Dublin, and Bengaluru. • Develop senior engineering talent and represent Cloud Traffic Engineering in multi-functional and executive forums, translating complex infrastructure tradeoffs into clear technical direction, business impact, and durable platform outcomes. What you will bring: • Experience leading cloud traffic engineering, network platform, service mesh, edge, load balancing, SRE, or related infrastructure teams supporting large-scale, multi-region production environments. • Experience managing seni