Senior Platform Engineer, Streaming & Storage (Hybrid)

StubHub; Aliso Viejo (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Accelerated growth

Top-tier compensation

Flexible time off

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

StubHub is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Core Platform - Streaming & Storage team. Hybrid role across New York, Century City, Aliso Viejo or San Francisco, working with scalable streaming, messaging, and storage components.

You’ll lead design and delivery of platform capabilities, mentor engineers, and help decompose large data stores into modern services with reliable data access, delivering measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• 5–6+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience designing and optimizing distributed systems and microservices.
• Strong understanding of caching and messaging systems.
• Proven ability to mentor 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#

Distributed systems

Microservices

Caching strategies

Messaging systems

Leadership/mentoring

Tools

SQL Server

Job description

StubHub is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Core Platform - Streaming & Storage team. Hybrid role across New York, Century City, Aliso Viejo or San Francisco, working with scalable streaming, messaging, and storage components.

You’ll lead design and delivery of platform capabilities, mentor engineers, and help decompose large data stores into modern services with reliable data access, delivering measurable business impact.