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Base Salary
$300k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical strategy and architecture for streaming platforms and NoSQL/storage offerings.
- Lead the migration from Azure 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 platform adoption, migration guides, tooling, sign-off processes, and developer experience.
- Build compliance and governance into the platform, including PII handling, retention, and data access controls under SOX and GDPR/CCPA.
- 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.
- Experience operating production infrastructure at scale, including high availability, incident response, performance tuning, and cost management.
- Experience with cloud data storage and NoSQL systems such as 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 or other lakehouse formats, CDC pipelines, .NET/C#, Python, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, and OpenTelemetry.
Benefits
- Onsite hybrid 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 upside tied to impact.
- Unlimited Flex Time Off.
- 401(k) and premium health, vision, and dental insurance.
- Paid parental leave and comprehensive health benefits.
- Accelerated growth environment with 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.