Senior Platform Engineer – Streaming & Storage (Hybrid)

StubHub; Los Angeles (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 in the US. You will design and evolve streaming, messaging, and storage platforms that power StubHub’s live event infrastructure.

You will lead architecture across teams, decompose large data stores, and build scalable services that enable high-scale, low-latency workflows across listings, transactions, and customer experiences.

Qualifications

• 5–6+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience with developing robust, mission-critical systems using one or multiple general-purpose programming languages (e.g., C/C++, Java, C#).
• 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.
• Experience owning projects from idea to production and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop SDKs, services, shared packages, and tools to enhance engineering efficiency.
• Develop an intuitive cross-language performant runtime environment for business/customer-facing services.
• Architect high-performance, scalable services actively used by internal customers.
• Serve as SME in distributed caching and messaging and design patterns.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to identify inefficiencies and propose scalable solutions.
• Drive initiatives to improve performance and scalability across the platform.
• Champion best practices and high standards of quality and efficiency.

Skills

5-6+ years experience

C/C++

Java

C#

Distributed systems

Tools

SQL Server

Job description

StubHub is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Core Platform - Streaming & Storage team in the US. You will design and evolve streaming, messaging, and storage platforms that power StubHub’s live event infrastructure.

You will lead architecture across teams, decompose large data stores, and build scalable services that enable high-scale, low-latency workflows across listings, transactions, and customer experiences.