Senior Software Engineer - Core Platform - Streaming & Storages

StubHub•New York, NY

4h•$200,000 - $250,000•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 are critical infrastructure for StubHub’s engineering organization. The engineer will lead delivery of scalable platform capabilities, work with engineering teams on complex performance and reliability challenges, modernize services at the core of StubHub’s distributed systems, and help decompose 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 including message queues, DQL, retry infrastructure, message versioning, messaging control planes, and storage platforms such as 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 interested in infrastructure and backend problems, technical direction, cross-team architectural influence, and delivering platform capabilities with business impact. The role is hybrid, with three days in the office and two days remote, and is based in Century City, California; Aliso Viejo, California; or New York, New York. The anticipated annual base salary range is $200,000–$250,000, with compensation varying according to qualifications, skills, experience, and competencies. Total compensation includes equity and benefits.

Requirements

5–6+ years of professional software development experience.
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 programming 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.

Responsibilities

Design and develop SDKs, services, shared packages, and tools to improve engineering efficiency and productivity.
Develop an intuitive, cross-language, performant runtime environment to serve 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 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.
Manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Help foster a positive, inclusive team culture that values diverse perspectives.
Lead the design and delivery of scalable platform capabilities and address complex performance and reliability challenges.
Help modernize core distributed-system services and decompose monolithic SQL Server data stores into purpose-built storage systems.