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# Staff Software Engineer - Core Platform - Streaming & Storage

- **Company:** StubHub, Inc.
- **Location:** Laguna Beach, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $300,000.0 - $350,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, C Sharp (Programming Language), Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), NoSQL, Performance Tuning, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, System Availability, Caching, Indexer, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Terraform, Confluent
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/dfc73180-e5e5-468a-9de2-991fc1f3c0de

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be the technical owner across our Streaming and Nonrelational Storage domains: setting technical direction, driving the key architecture and vendor decisions, ensuring operational excellence for P0 infrastructure, and mentoring the engineers who build and run it., * 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