3 hours ago
Base Salary
$300k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical strategy and architecture for streaming, messaging, NoSQL, and storage platforms.
- Lead migration from Azure EventHub and ServiceBus to an AWS-native Kafka-compatible platform, including vendor selection, benchmarking, broker deployment, schema registry, and SDKs.
- Design and operate high-throughput infrastructure processing billions of events per day.
- Drive architecture reviews, observability, operational readiness, and incident response for P0 systems.
- Partner with approximately 100 service teams on adoption, migration guides, tooling, sign-off processes, and developer experience.
- Build SOX and GDPR/CCPA compliance and governance into the platform, including PII handling, retention, and data access controls.
- Mentor and grow a team of 3–5 engineers and shape the multi-year technical 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, including 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 systems.
- 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 registry and compatibility tooling, Iceberg, CDC pipelines, .NET/C#, Python, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, and OpenTelemetry.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary, equity, and upside compensation package.
- Unlimited Flex Time Off.
- 401(k), health, vision, and dental insurance, plus paid parental leave and comprehensive health benefits.
- Onsite work three days per week and remote work two days per week in New York, NY, Santa Monica, CA, or Aliso Viejo, CA.
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.