$300,000 – $350,000
Listed on StubHub’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
StubHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the architecture and operational delivery of their core streaming and storage platforms, which process tens of billions of events daily across 100+ internal service teams. This role suits an experienced platform engineer with a track record of operating distributed systems at scale and leading large infrastructure migrations, who can set technical direction and mentor a team while managing compliance and performance of mission-critical infrastructure.
Our summary, not StubHub’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
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What they ask for
Required
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with several years leading large-scale distributed systems
- Deep expertise in event streaming and messaging (Kafka or Kafka-compatible brokers)
- Proven production infrastructure operations at scale with high availability and incident response
- Experience with cloud data storage and NoSQL systems
- Track record of leading multi-quarter, cross-team platform migrations end-to-end
- Strong communication skills to align leadership, partner teams, and engineers
Nice to have
- Schema registry and compatibility tooling experience
- Lakehouse formats (Iceberg)
- CDC pipelines
- C# and Python expertise
- Kubernetes/EKS experience
- Terraform experience
- OpenTelemetry experience
- Experience mentoring junior engineers