Staff Software Engineer - Core Platform
StubHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join its Core Platform - Streaming & Storage team. This role focuses on leading the architecture and delivery of foundational streaming, messaging, and storage platforms that support critical workflows across the company. The team provides core engineering products used broadly across StubHub, 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. The position is based in New York, NY, or Aliso Viejo, CA, with a hybrid work schedule of three days in the office and two days remote. The anticipated gross base pay range for this role is $300,000–$350,000 USD annually.
In this role, the Staff Software Engineer will own the technical strategy and architecture for StubHub's streaming platform and NoSQL/storage offerings. They will lead the migration of streaming services from Azure to an AWS-native, Kafka-compatible platform, including vendor selection, benchmarking, broker deployment, schema registry, and producer/consumer SDKs. The engineer will design and operate high-throughput infrastructure processing billions of events per day, ensuring reliability and performance appropriate to its company-wide impact. They will drive engineering excellence through architecture and design reviews, observability, operational readiness, and incident response for P0 systems. Additionally, the role involves partnering with approximately 100 service teams on adoption, providing migration guides, tooling, sign-off processes, and enhancing the developer experience. The engineer will also ensure compliance and governance (SOX, GDPR/CCPA) are integrated into the platform, including PII handling, retention, and data access controls. Mentoring and growing a team of 3–5 engineers, raising the technical bar through design reviews and coaching, and shaping the team's multi-year roadmap in partnership with engineering are also key responsibilities.
Candidates should have over 8 years of software engineering experience, including several years acting as a technical lead for large-scale distributed systems. Deep expertise in event streaming and messaging, particularly with Kafka or Kafka-compatible brokers, is essential. Proven experience operating production infrastructure at scale, including high availability, incident response, performance tuning, and cost management, is required. Experience with cloud data storage and NoSQL systems, such as object storage, key-value stores, distributed caches, and search/indexing systems, is necessary. A track record of leading multi-quarter, cross-team platform migrations or programs end-to-end is important. Excellent communication skills are crucial for aligning leadership, partner teams, and engineers on technical direction. Experience mentoring junior engineers is also required. Preferred qualifications include experience with schema registry and compatibility tooling, lakehouse formats (Iceberg), CDC pipelines,.NET/C#, Python, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, and OpenTelemetry.
StubHub offers an accelerated growth environment designed for swift skill and knowledge enhancement, where engineers have the autonomy to lead experiments and tests on a massive scale. The company provides a top-tier compensation package, including a competitive base salary, equity, and additional benefits that align with individual impact. Employees enjoy flexible time off with unlimited Flex Time Off, promoting a healthy work-life balance. Comprehensive benefits include 401(k), and premium health, vision, and dental insurance options.
StubHub is on a mission to redefine the live event experience on a global scale. Whether someone is looking to attend their first event or their hundredth, StubHub aims to delight them from the moment they start looking for a ticket until they step through the gate. The company serves millions of fans who browse its platform around the world, from fans selling a single ticket to promoters of worldwide stadium tours. Joining StubHub offers a front-row seat to the action in the live events industry.