Sr Software Engineer – Data Obfuscation & Privacy

About e Bay

At e Bay, 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 Role

At e Bay, protecting customer data is fundamental to maintaining trust and ensuring compliance with global privacy standards. Our team is responsible for building privacy-first engineering solutions, including data obfuscation, anonymization, and de-identification services that safeguard sensitive information without reducing platform usability. We are seeking a Software Engineer who will focus on designing and implementing data obfuscation services to protect customer identities, payment details, and other sensitive data. This role combines deep technical expertise with a strong passion for data privacy, security, and compliance, ensuring e Bay can continue to innovate while keeping our users safe.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop services that implement data obfuscation, anonymization, and masking for sensitive customer data across e Bay's ecosystem.
• Collaborate with privacy, security, and product teams to define requirements that balance compliance, usability, and performance.
• Integrate obfuscation frameworks into critical systems, ensuring minimal friction for internal teams and customers.
• Conduct security and privacy assessments, identifying risks and applying mitigations to meet global privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA, etc.).
• Develop APIs and SDKs that make data obfuscation solutions easy to adopt across teams.
• Monitor and audit obfuscation services to ensure performance, accuracy, and compliance.
• Support incident response teams in protecting sensitive data during production issues or investigations.

Required Skills

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• 5–8 years of software engineering experience, with a focus on security, data privacy, or backend services.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Python, or Node.js.
• Expertise in data obfuscation techniques: masking, tokenization, pseudonymization, encryption.
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerized deployments (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Strong knowledge of security and privacy principles, including regulatory frameworks (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA).
• Experience designing APIs, microservices, and scalable distributed systems.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) such as differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, or secure multi-party computation.
• Familiarity with data governance frameworks and compliance tooling.
• Hands-on work with monitoring, auditing, and logging tools to ensure obfuscation compliance.
• Strong knowledge of identity and access management (IAM).
• Experience building developer-friendly tools that accelerate adoption of privacy-preserving practices.

Equal Opportunity

e Bay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at talent@ebay.com. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about e Bay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.