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# Staff Software Engineer - Core Platform - Streaming & Storage

- **Company:** StubHub, Inc.
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $300,000.0 - $350,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Data Security, NoSQL, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Servicebus, Apache Kafka
- **Published:** November 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/7_9325C0DE2C473538890C4D237E9E8FDF

## About the Role

and producer/consumer SDKsDesign and operate high-throughput infrastructure processing billions of events per day, with reliability and performance appropriate to its company-wide blast radiusDrive engineering excellence: architecture and design reviews, observability, operational readiness, and incident response for P0 systemsPartner with ~100 service teams on adoption - migration guides, tooling, sign-off processes, and developer experienceEnsure compliance and governance (SOX, GDPR/CCPA) are designed into the platform, including PII handling, retention, and data access controlsMentor and grow a team of 3-5 engineers, raising the technical bar through design review and coachingShape the team's multi-year roadmap in partnership with engineeringWhat You've Done:8+ years of software engineering experience, including several years acting as a technical lead for large-scale distributed systemsDeep expertise in event streaming and messaging - Kafka or Kafka-compatible brokers

## Description

The team is at the beginning of a major program to bring StubHub's streaming home to AWS - consolidating from Azure services (EventHub, ServiceBus) onto a modern, Kafka-compatible platform with schema enforcement, self-service SDKs, and direct streaming and querying of event data from S3.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.Location: Onsite (3 days in office/2 days remote) - New York, NY, or Century City, CA or Aliso Viejo, CA or San Francisco, CA. What You'll Do:Own the technical strategy and architecture for StubHub's streaming platform and NoSQL/storage offeringsLead the migration of streaming from Azure to an AWS-native, Kafka-compatible platform - vendor selection and benchmarking, broker deployment, schema registry