Engineering Manager, Core Engineering

SeatGeek

9h•$171,000 - $248,000•Hybrid

About The Position

SeatGeek’s Core Engineering department owns the infrastructure and networking that powers SeatGeek.com, along with transversal capabilities including application frameworks, developer experience, security, and resilience. The Engineering Manager will lead one or more Core Engineering teams, helping transform a strong technical foundation into a resilient, user-focused product. The role shapes the team’s roadmap, enhances developer experience, and drives faster, more reliable delivery across the company. The manager leads senior engineers and owns a transversal Core Engineering domain, maintaining operational excellence while setting its tactical and strategic direction. They provide technical guidance through code and architecture reviews, support recruiting and employee development, and work with technical and product counterparts to align the team’s vision with organizational and business goals. The role also involves technology vendor selection, build-versus-buy decisions, communicating technical and product decisions, resolving blockers, and collaborating with leaders across the organization. SeatGeek describes its technology stack for transparency, noting that experience with every listed technology is not expected. The company values core engineering skills and the ability to learn over deep expertise in any single tool or language.

Requirements

Successfully built and led lean teams, keeping them productive, motivated, and able to deliver impactful results.
Ability to foster safe, collaborative, and inclusive environments where engineers are empowered to do their best work.
Ability to shape and drive complex, user-focused roadmaps and keep a team focused in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences and represent the team’s work to a wide range of stakeholders.
Knowledge of the technology industry to help the team make sound tooling and framework decisions.
Ability to lead by setting context, facilitating collaboration, and gaining buy-in across product, design, engineering, and leadership partners.
Prior experience working as an engineer and familiarity with the challenges of that role.
Core engineering skills and ability to learn; deep expertise in any one tool or language is not required.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with tooling across a technology stack.
Hands-on experience building highly available and distributed systems, especially container orchestration systems.
Familiarity with the listed stack: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, C#, Go, GitLab, AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, Datadog, Fastly, Kong, and Cilium.

Responsibilities

Manage a team of strong senior engineers.
Own a transversal Core Engineering domain, maintain operational excellence, and drive its tactical and strategic vision.
Conduct code and architecture reviews and provide technical and design feedback.
Participate actively in recruiting and help grow the engineering team.
Provide regular performance feedback, hold one-on-ones, and support direct reports’ career development.
Work with technical and product counterparts to form a compelling team vision and direction aligned with organizational and business goals.
Select technology vendors and work with existing vendors when necessary; make build-versus-buy decisions with the team.
Communicate technical and product decisions to relevant stakeholders, resolve blockers, and collaborate with leaders across the organization.

Benefits

Equity stake; the role is equity eligible.
Discretionary annual bonus based on individual and company performance.
Flexible work environment, with the option to work in the office as many days per week as desired or 100% remotely.
Work-from-home stipend to support a home office setup.
Unlimited PTO.
Up to 16 weeks of fully paid family leave.
401(k) matching.
Student loan matching program.
Health, vision, dental, and life insurance.
Up to $25,000 toward family building, reproductive health services, and gender-affirming care.
$500 per year for wellness expenses.
Subscriptions to Headspace, Headspace Care, and One Medical.
$360 per quarter to spend on tickets to live events.
Annual subscription to Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon Music.