Ticketing, Live Events, E-commerce, Technology

Senior Software Engineer, Platform

RemoteRemoteFull TimeSenior$144,000–$209,000 /yrPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

Is this role right for you?

Upload your resume and get a skill-by-skill breakdown — see exactly where you match, where you're close, and what to highlight. Not a mystery percentage.

Get a tailored resume highlighting what this role needs.

Required skills

platform
infrastructure
automation
resilience
reliability
networking
deployments
monitoring
scalability
AI tools

Nice to have

Go
C#
Python
Bash
Kubernetes
Docker

Role summary

SeatGeek is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Platform team to enhance the systems powering their technology ecosystem. This role involves traditional software engineering alongside infrastructure development, focusing on compute, infrastructure as code, databases, and networks. The engineer will address unique ticketing industry challenges like high-load onsales, requiring automation and custom solutions. Responsibilities include building developer tools, improving system reliability, engineering networking infrastructure, collaborating with other departments, and mentoring the team. Experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability tools is expected. The role offers a flexible work environment and a competitive salary range.

SeatGeek believes live events are powerful experiences that unite humans. With our technological savvy and fan-first attitude we’re simplifying and modernizing the ticketing industry.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join SeatGeek’s Platform team. You'll improve the systems that power the entirety of SeatGeek's technology ecosystem. This unique role combines both the craftsmanship and rigor of traditional Software Engineering, whilst also incorporating an openness to the development of the underlying infrastructure; including core compute, infrastructure as code, database, and network infrastructure.

The nature of the ticketing engineering industry places unique constraints and workflows on our systems and infrastructure, especially during high-load onsales, requiring out of the box solutions and automation to be the norm. This team is the backbone to our Enterprise and Consumer lines of business as we grow our primary and secondary ticketing platforms that support world-class clients such as the Dallas Cowboys, and Manchester City FC.

What you'll do

Bring a software engineers’ mindset to SeatGeeks’ unique scaling, workflow automation and resilience challenges

Build and maintain tools that our developers use to observe their applications, and drive initiatives to increase our overall reliability

Engineer resilient and observable networking infrastructure that supports a diverse set of workloads across multiple regions

Collaborate with other departments on how to run production systems and deployments with autonomy

Support teams with expertise in the area of deployment, configuration, routing, monitoring and scalability in all parts of the stack

Leverage cutting-edge AI tools to bring ideas to life faster than ever while upholding SeatGeek’s technical and product standards; no token limits

Become a force multiplier by mentoring and leading the team around you

Participate in an on-call schedule to help our customers experience more live

What you have

Passion for craftsmanship and product. You have well-considered opinions about how software and reliable infrastructure should work, and hold yourself and your code to a high standard

Experience building business critical software in a fast-paced environment. We'll be interested in hearing about what you've built and how

Experience solving complex technical challenges. SeatGeek engineers create custom solutions to unique ticketing problems, including high traffic onsales, interactive venue maps, inventory tracking, and event matching. We'll be excited to hear about challenging problems you've solved

Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and serverless compute platforms

Experience with continuous integration, delivery, testing, and code deployment

Experience using observability tools to make performance improvements and forecast growth

Experience improving system architecture, diagnosing shortcomings and implementing evidence-based recommendations

Our stack

You do not need experience with all of these, but we thought you might be curious. What we care about is your experience, skills, and approach to problem solving. Tools can be learned.

Languages: Go, C#, Python, Bash

Runtimes: Kubernetes, Docker, ECS/Fargate, Lambda

Datastores: Postgres, SQL Server, Memcache, Redis, and Elasticsearch

Streaming & workflows: Kafka, Flink, Airflow, Temporal

Service Discovery and Routing: Cilium, Consul, Envoy, CoreDNS

Monitoring: DataDog

Incident Management:PagerDuty

Configuration Management: Chef, Ansible

Secrets Management: Vault

Infrastructure as Code: Cloudformation, Terraform

Cloud Providers: AWS

Version control: Git

CI / CD: Gitlab CI

Perks

Equity stake

Discretionary annual bonus

Flexible work environment, allowing you to work as many days a week in the office as you’d like or 100% remotely

A WFH stipend to support your home office setup

Unlimited PTO

Up to 16 weeks of fully-paid family leave

401(k) matching

Student loan matching program

Health, vision, dental, and life insurance

Up to $25k towards family building, reproductive health services and Gender-affirming care

$500 per year for wellness expenses

Subscriptions to Headspace (meditation), Headspace Care (therapy), and One Medical

$360 per quarter to spend on tickets to live events

Annual subscription to Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon music

The salary range for this role is $144,000 - $209,000 USD. This role is equity eligible. In addition, you may receive a discretionary annual bonus based on individual and company performance. Actual compensation packages within that range are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years and depth of experience, certifications, and specific location.

SeatGeek is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, creed, age, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, military or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. As an equal opportunities employer, we recognize that diversity is a positive attribute and we welcome the differences and benefits that a diverse culture brings. Come join us!

To review our candidate privacy notice, click here.

Sample SeatGeek interview questions

1
Design a ticket reservation transfer system
system designmedium
2
Pacific and Atlantic Water Flow Calculate water flow from a matrix to the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Input: heights = [[2,1],[1,2]] Output: [[0,0],[0,1],[1,0],[1,1]] Explanation: All cells can flow to both oceans because water can move to adjacent cells of equal or lower height or directly off the edges.
codingmedium
3
Product of Array Except Self Calculate the product of an array except for self without using division. Input: nums = [-1,1,0,-3,3] Output: [0,0,9,0,0] Explanation: The single zero zeros out all products except at its own index, which cleanly multiplies the remaining elements.
codingmedium
4
Implement String Compression Implement string compression. Input: chars = ["a","b","b","b","b","b","b","b","b","b","b","b","b"] Output: ["a","b","1","2"] Explanation: The letter 'a' appears once (so no number is appended), and 'b' appears 12 times, modifying the array in place to length 4.
codingmedium
5
Optimal Meeting Point Calculate the optimal meeting point for multiple people on a 2D grid. Input: grid = [[1,0],[0,1]] Output: 2 Explanation: The optimal meeting point is either (0,1) or (1,0), requiring exactly 1 step from each person resulting in a total distance of 2.
codingmedium

Get started to unlock a personalized interview prep pack for this role.

Ready to apply?

You'll be redirected to SeatGeek's application page.