Senior Platform Engineer — Streaming & Storage (Hybrid)

StubHub; New York (NY); 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, in New York, NY, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Core Platform with Streaming & Storage expertise. You will design and evolve streaming, messaging, and storage infrastructure powering StubHub’s engineering org, and lead decomposition of monolithic data stores into scalable, reliable components.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-performance services, mentor engineers, and drive platform-level performance improvements in a hybrid in-office/remote

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#).
• Expertise in designing and optimizing distributed systems, including microservices architectures, caching strategies, and message queuing systems.
• Strong collaboration and mentoring abilities.

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 SME in distributed caching and messaging, with a deep understanding of design patterns.
• Collaborate with engineering teams as customers, identifying inefficiencies and proposing scalable solutions.
• Drive initiatives to improve performance and scalability across our platform.
• Champion best practices in software development with high quality standards.
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.
• Foster a positive and inclusive team culture.

Skills

C/C++

Java

C#

Distributed systems

Microservices

Caching strategies

Message queues

Mentoring

Leadership

Tools

Key-value databases

Blob storage

Distributed caches

Messaging systems

Job description

StubHub, in New York, NY, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Core Platform with Streaming & Storage expertise. You will design and evolve streaming, messaging, and storage infrastructure powering StubHub’s engineering org, and lead decomposition of monolithic data stores into scalable, reliable components.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-performance services, mentor engineers, and drive platform-level performance improvements in a hybrid in-office/remote