Senior Software Engineer, Platform

SeatGeek

4h•$144,000 - $209,000•Remote

About The Position

The Platform organization at SeatGeek helps turn their vision into reality by providing a secure, reliable foundation for building and shipping products. By reducing complexity and offering well-supported, self-service tools and workflows, they enable teams across SeatGeek to move with confidence and stay focused on delivering great experiences. This role involves working closely with partners across engineering and product to design and deliver capabilities that are easy to use, dependable at scale, and flexible enough to support different team needs. The work will help teams across SeatGeek build and ship with fewer surprises, especially during the moments when their systems matter most. SeatGeek encourages applications even if experience doesn't match every requirement, valuing curiosity, collaboration, and a willingness to learn.

Requirements

Experience contributing to the design, development, or operation of shared systems, platforms, or infrastructure that support other engineers or teams
Familiarity with building, running, or improving production systems, and an interest in reliability, security, scalability, and safe ways to deploy and operate software
A thoughtful approach to writing and maintaining code, with attention to clarity, maintainability, and how others will use and operate what you build
An interest in developer experience and platform usability, including how tools, abstractions, and workflows affect team productivity and broader business goals
Comfort collaborating across teams and disciplines, communicating clearly, and turning broad needs into practical technical solutions with support from others
A commitment to learning and growth (both your own and your teammates’) through knowledge sharing, feedback, and continuous improvement

Nice To Haves

Experience with Python, Go, HCL, Yaml
Experience with GitLab
Experience with Cursor, Claude
Experience with AWS, Kubernetes / EKS, Terraform
Experience with Datadog
Experience with Fastly, Kong, Cilium
Experience with Kafka, Flink, Redshift

Responsibilities

Design, build, and support shared platform systems and tooling that help teams across SeatGeek develop and run services reliably
Partner with engineering and product teams to address performance, scalability, and reliability needs as the marketplace and business grow
Contribute to system reliability, observability, security, and scalability through automation and well-considered abstractions
Participate in operating production systems, including supporting releases, taking part in an on-call rotation, and responding to incidents and support requests with guidance and collaboration from the team
Collaborate across teams and disciplines to identify friction and improve how software is built and operated at SeatGeek
Help evolve internal platforms, APIs, standards, and shared tooling to improve reliability and developer experience over time
Participate in evaluating new technologies and patterns, balancing short-term needs with long-term maintainability and operational health
Use automation and emerging tools, including AI-assisted workflows, to improve development and operational efficiency
Share context and learnings through documentation, design discussions, and collaboration across teams

Benefits

Equity stake
Discretionary annual bonus
Flexible work environment, allowing you to work as many days a week in the office as you’d like or 100% remotely
A WFH stipend to support your 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 $25k towards family building, reproductive health services and Gender-affirming care
$500 per year for wellness expenses
Subscriptions to Headspace (meditation), Headspace Care (therapy), and One Medical
$360 per quarter to spend on tickets to live events
Annual subscription to Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon music