Staff Software Engineer - Core Platform

About StubHub At StubHub, our mission is to give everyone the freedom to access and connect through live experiences. As the world's leading live event marketplace, we connect fans, sellers, and partners globally, providing access to an expansive catalog of events across more than 90 countries and territories. In 2024 alone, fans purchased over 40 million tickets from more than 1 million unique sellers on our marketplace. Operating in 33 languages and offering transactions in 48 currencies, StubHub ensures that fans everywhere can discover and attend events seamlessly, no matter their location. From sports and music to comedy, dance, festivals, and theater, we enable fans to access unforgettable experiences worldwide. Our trusted and secure platform guarantees a zero-breakage ticket-buying experience, supported by advanced pricing intelligence for fair and transparent ticketing. StubHub is redefining live entertainment through consumer-focused products, omnichannel marketing excellence, and unparalleled global selection. Ready to shape the future of live entertainment?

StubHub

e-commerceInnovationTechnologyEntertainmentTicketingMarketplace ManagementLive Entertainmentand Partnerships

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stubhub.com

1,001-5,000 employees

Software Development

New York, NY

2000

Privately Held

68k LinkedIn followers

Raised $59.2M

• Own the technical strategy and architecture for StubHub's streaming platform and NoSQL/storage offerings
• Lead the migration of streaming from Azure to an AWS-native, Kafka-compatible platform — vendor selection and benchmarking, broker deployment, schema registry, and producer/consumer SDKs
• Design and operate high-throughput infrastructure processing billions of events per day, with reliability and performance appropriate to its company-wide blast radius
• Drive engineering excellence: architecture and design reviews, observability, operational readiness, and incident response for P0 systems
• Partner with ~100 service teams on adoption — migration guides, tooling, sign-off processes, and developer experience
• Ensure compliance and governance (SOX, GDPR/CCPA) are designed into the platform, including PII handling, retention, and data access controls
• Mentor and grow a team of 3–5 engineers, raising the technical bar through design review and coaching
• Shape the team's multi-year roadmap in partnership with engineering
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including several years acting as a technical lead for large-scale distributed systems
• Deep expertise in event streaming and messaging — Kafka or Kafka-compatible brokers (e.g., MSK, Confluent, Redpanda, AutoMQ, WarpStream)
• Proven experience operating production infrastructure at scale: high availability, incident response, performance tuning, and cost management
• Experience with cloud data storage and NoSQL systems (object storage, key-value stores, distributed caches, search/indexing)
• Track record of leading multi-quarter, cross-team platform migrations or programs end-to-end
• Excellent communication skills — able to align leadership, partner teams, and engineers on technical direction
• Bonus points: schema registry and compatibility tooling, lakehouse formats (Iceberg), CDC pipelines, .NET/C# and Python, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, OpenTelemetry
• Experience mentoring junior engineers

• Accelerated Growth Environment: An environment designed for swift skill and knowledge enhancement, where you have the autonomy to lead experiments and tests on a massive scale.
• Top Tier Compensation Package: Competitive base, equity, and upside that tracks with your impact.
• Flexible Time Off: Embrace a healthy work-life balance with unlimited Flex Time Off, providing you the flexibility to manage your schedule and recharge as needed.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Prioritize your well-being with a comprehensive benefits package, featuring 401k, and premium Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance options.
• The anticipated gross base pay range is below for this role. Actual compensation will vary depending on factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience, and competencies. Base annual salary is one component of StubHub’s total compensation and competitive benefits package, which includes equity, 401(k), paid time off, paid parental leave, and comprehensive health benefits.