Senior Platform Engineer - Streaming & Storage

StubHub; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Accelerated Growth Environment

Top Tier Compensation Package

Flexible Time Off

Comprehensive Benefits Package

Job summary

StubHub is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Core Platform - Streaming & Storage team. You will design, build, and evolve streaming, messaging, and storage infrastructure that powers StubHub’s live event experiences.

You’ll lead architecture for high-performance, scalable services, decompose large data stores, and partner with multiple engineering teams to deliver reliable platform capabilities with measurable business impact. Hybrid work in the US.

Qualifications

• 5-6+ years of professional experience in software development.
• Experience with developing robust, mission-critical systems using one or multiple general-purpose programming languages (e.g., C/C++, Java, C# or any other OOP language).
• Expertise in designing and optimizing distributed systems, including microservices architectures, caching strategies, and message queuing systems.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and enhance system scalability, reliability, and performance metrics.
• Previous experience designing and developing solutions to complex problems with significant business impact.
• A strong understanding of how their systems interact with the broader production environment, including dependencies and platform primitives.
• Proven ability to learn other coding languages, platforms, frameworks, and tools.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience owning projects from the initial idea all the way to production
• Experience mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop SDKs, services, shared packages, and tools to enhance engineering efficiency and productivity.
• Develop an intuitive cross-language performant runtime environment that will serve as a “container” for business/customer-facing services
• Architecting and implementing high-performance, scalable services actively used by internal customers.
• Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) in distributed caching and messaging, with a deep understanding of associated design patterns.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams as your customers, identifying technical inefficiencies and proposing scalable solutions and engineering patterns.
• Drive initiatives to improve performance and scalability across our platform.
• Champion best practices in software development, ensuring high standards of quality and efficiency.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Commitment to fostering a positive and inclusive team culture where diverse perspectives are valued.

Skills

C/C++

Java

C#

5-6+ years experience

Distributed systems

Caching & messaging

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

SQL Server

Message queues

DQL

Job description

StubHub is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Core Platform - Streaming & Storage team. You will design, build, and evolve streaming, messaging, and storage infrastructure that powers StubHub’s live event experiences.

You’ll lead architecture for high-performance, scalable services, decompose large data stores, and partner with multiple engineering teams to deliver reliable platform capabilities with measurable business impact. Hybrid work in the US.