5 hours ago
Base Salary
$300k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical strategy and architecture for StubHub’s streaming platform and NoSQL/storage offerings.
- Lead migration from Azure services to an AWS-native, Kafka-compatible streaming 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 platform 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 in event streaming and messaging using Kafka or Kafka-compatible brokers such as MSK, Confluent, Redpanda, AutoMQ, or WarpStream.
- Experience operating production infrastructure 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 of 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.
- Preferred experience with schema registry and compatibility tooling, Iceberg or other lakehouse formats, CDC pipelines, .NET/C#, Python, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, and OpenTelemetry.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers.
Benefits
- Onsite schedule with 3 days in the office and 2 days remote in New York, Century City, Aliso Viejo, or San Francisco.
- Competitive base salary, equity, and additional compensation upside.
- Unlimited Flex Time Off.
- 401(k), premium health, vision, and dental insurance, paid parental leave, and comprehensive health benefits.
- Environment offering autonomy, accelerated growth, and opportunities to lead large-scale experiments and tests.
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.