Senior Software Engineer - Core Platform - Streaming & Storages

StubHub•San Francisco, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

StubHub is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its Core Platform - Streaming & Storage team. The role designs, builds, and evolves streaming, messaging, and storage platforms that provide critical infrastructure for StubHub’s engineering organization. The engineer will lead the design and delivery of scalable platform capabilities, work with engineering teams on complex performance and reliability challenges, and help modernize services at the core of StubHub’s distributed systems. The role also contributes to decomposing large monolithic SQL Server data stores into purpose-built storage systems, supported by mature streaming solutions and reliable data access layers. The team owns foundational products such as message queues, DQL, retry infrastructure, message versioning, messaging control planes, and storage platforms including key-value databases, distributed caches, and blob storage. These systems support high-scale, reliable, event-driven services and business-critical workflows across listings, transactions, fulfillment, and customer experiences. The position is suited to an engineer who enjoys infrastructure and backend problems, setting technical direction, influencing architecture across teams, and delivering platform capabilities with measurable business impact. The role is hybrid, with three days in the office and two days remote, in New York, NY; Century City, CA; Aliso Viejo, CA; or San Francisco, CA.

Requirements

5–6+ years of professional experience in software development.
Experience developing robust, mission-critical systems using one or more general-purpose programming languages, such as C/C++, Java, C#, or another object-oriented language.
Expertise designing and optimizing distributed systems, including microservices architectures, caching strategies, and message queuing systems.
Demonstrated ability to analyze and improve system scalability, reliability, and performance metrics.
Experience designing and developing solutions to complex problems with significant business impact.
Strong understanding of how systems interact with the broader production environment, including dependencies and platform primitives.
Ability to learn other coding languages, platforms, frameworks, and tools.
Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Experience owning projects from initial idea through production.
Experience mentoring junior engineers.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.

Responsibilities

Design and develop SDKs, services, shared packages, and tools to improve engineering efficiency and productivity.
Develop an intuitive, cross-language, performant runtime environment that serves as a container for business- and customer-facing services.
Architect and implement high-performance, scalable services used by internal customers.
Serve as a subject matter expert in distributed caching and messaging, including associated design patterns.
Collaborate with engineering teams as customers to identify technical inefficiencies and propose scalable solutions and engineering patterns.
Drive initiatives to improve platform performance and scalability.
Champion software development best practices and high standards of quality and efficiency.
Contribute to a positive and inclusive team culture where diverse perspectives are valued.