Staff Software Engineer - Core Platform

What You'll Do:
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

What You've Done:
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