Staff Software Engineer - Core Platform - Streaming & Storage

What You'll Do:

What You've Done:

What We Offer:

• Accelerated Growth Environment: An environment designed for swift skill and knowledge enhancement, where you have the autonomy to lead experiments and tests on a massive scale.
• Top Tier Compensation Package: Competitive base, equity, and upside that tracks with your impact.
• Flexible Time Off: Embrace a healthy work-life balance with unlimited Flex Time Off, providing you the flexibility to manage your schedule and recharge as needed.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Prioritize your well-being with a comprehensive benefits package, featuring 401k, and premium Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance options.
• The anticipated gross base pay range is below for this role. Actual compensation will vary depending on factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience, and competencies. Base annual salary is one component of StubHub’s total compensation and competitive benefits package, which includes equity, 401(k), paid time off, paid parental leave, and comprehensive health benefits.
• Salary Range$300,000—$350,000 USD

About Us

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud data storage and NoSQL systems (object storage, key-value stores, distributed caches, search/indexing)

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and architecture for StubHub's streaming platform and NoSQL/storage offerings
• Lead the migration of streaming from Azure to an AWS-native, Kafka-compatible platform — vendor selection and benchmarking, broker deployment, schema registry, and producer/consumer SDKs
• Design and operate high-throughput infrastructure processing billions of events per day, with reliability and performance appropriate to its company-wide blast radius
• Drive engineering excellence: architecture and design reviews, observability, operational readiness, and incident response for P0 systems
• Partner with ~100 service teams on adoption — migration guides, tooling, sign-off processes, and developer experience
• Ensure compliance and governance (SOX, GDPR/CCPA) are designed into the platform, including PII handling, retention, and data access controls
• Mentor and grow a team of 3–5 engineers, raising the technical bar through design review and coaching
• Shape the team's multi-year roadmap in partnership with engineering
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including several years acting as a technical lead for large-scale distributed systems
• Deep expertise in event streaming and messaging — Kafka or Kafka-compatible brokers (e.g., MSK, Confluent, Redpanda, AutoMQ, WarpStream)
• Proven experience operating production infrastructure at scale: high availability, incident response, performance tuning, and cost management
• Experience with cloud data storage and NoSQL systems (object storage, key-value stores, distributed caches, search/indexing)
• Track record of leading multi-quarter, cross-team platform migrations or programs end-to-end
• Excellent communication skills — able to align leadership, partner teams, and engineers on technical direction
• Bonus points: schema registry and compatibility tooling, lakehouse formats (Iceberg), CDC pipelines,.NET/C# and Python, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, OpenTelemetry
• Experience mentoring junior engineers