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About the Role
Lead the architecture and delivery of foundational streaming, messaging, and storage platforms that power P0 workflows across StubHub. The team provides core engineering products used broadly across the company, including message queues, DLQ and retry infrastructure, messaging control planes, and storage platforms such as key-value databases, distributed caches, blob storage, and search/indexing systems. These platforms enable teams to build reliable, scalable, and event-driven services.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including several years acting as a technical lead for large-scale distributed systems
- Proven experience operating production infrastructure at scale: high availability, incident response, performance tuning, and cost management
- 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
- Experience mentoring junior engineers
Skills
- Deep expertise in event streaming and messaging — Kafka or Kafka-compatible brokers (e.g., MSK, Confluent, Redpanda, AutoMQ, WarpStream)
- Experience with cloud data storage and NoSQL systems (object storage, key-value stores, distributed caches, search/indexing)
- schema registry and compatibility tooling
- lakehouse formats (Iceberg)
- CDC pipelines
- .NET/C# and Python
- Kubernetes/EKS
- Terraform
- OpenTelemetry
Location
- New York, NY
- Santa Monica, CA
- Aliso Viejo, CA
Work Type
- Onsite (3 days in office/2 days remote)
Experience Level
- Staff
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- several years acting as a technical lead
Salary/Compensations
- $300,000—$350,000 USD
Benefits
- Accelerated Growth Environment
- Top Tier Compensation Package
- Flexible Time Off
- 401k
- premium Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance options
About the Company
- StubHub is the world’s leading marketplace to buy and sell tickets to any live event, anywhere.
- Through StubHub in North America and viagogo, our international platform, we service customers in 195 countries in 33 languages and 49 available currencies.
- With more than 300 million tickets available annually on our platform to events around the world -- from sports to music, comedy to dance, festivals to theater -- StubHub offers the safest, most convenient way to buy or sell tickets to the most memorable live experiences.
- Come join our team for a front-row seat to the action.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity on our team.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.