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Base Salary
$300k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical strategy and architecture for streaming, messaging, NoSQL, and storage platforms.
- Lead the migration from Azure EventHub and ServiceBus to an AWS-native Kafka-compatible platform, including vendor selection, benchmarking, broker deployment, schema registry, and producer/consumer SDKs.
- Design and operate high-throughput infrastructure processing billions of events per day with appropriate reliability and performance.
- Drive architecture reviews, observability, operational readiness, and incident response for P0 systems.
- Partner with approximately 100 service teams on adoption through migration guides, tooling, sign-off processes, and developer experience.
- Design compliance and governance for SOX, GDPR/CCPA, PII handling, retention, and data access controls.
- Mentor and grow a team of 3–5 engineers and shape the team’s multi-year roadmap.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including several years as a technical lead for large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep expertise with event streaming and messaging using Kafka or Kafka-compatible brokers such as MSK, Confluent, Redpanda, AutoMQ, or WarpStream.
- Production infrastructure experience at scale, including high availability, incident response, performance tuning, and cost management.
- Experience with cloud data storage and NoSQL systems, including object storage, key-value stores, distributed caches, and search/indexing.
- Track record leading multi-quarter, cross-team platform migrations or programs end-to-end.
- Strong communication skills for aligning leadership, partner teams, and engineers on technical direction.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers.
- Preferred experience with schema registries and compatibility tooling, Iceberg or other lakehouse formats, CDC pipelines, .NET/C#, Python, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, and OpenTelemetry.
Benefits
- Onsite schedule of 3 days in the office and 2 days remote in New York, Century City, Aliso Viejo, or San Francisco.
- Unlimited Flex Time Off.
- 401(k), health, vision, and dental insurance.
- Equity, paid parental leave, and comprehensive health benefits.
- Autonomy to lead experiments and tests at massive scale.
Tech Stack
About StubHub
StubHub operates a web and mobile marketplace for buying and reselling tickets to sports, concerts, theater, and other live events, serving both fans and professional sellers. Its business model centers on service and transaction fees, along with partnerships with teams and promoters. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in New York, it is privately held and part of Viagogo, with operations spanning markets across North America, Europe, and beyond.