Ticketing, Live Events, E-commerce, Technology

Engineering Manager, Core Engineering

RemoteRemoteFull TimeManager / Head$171,000–$248,000 /yrPosted 16 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

Core Engineering
infrastructure
networking
application frameworks
developer experience
security
resilience
senior engineers
operational excellence
technical vision

Nice to have

AWS
Kubernetes
EKS
Terraform
Datadog
Fastly

Role summary

SeatGeek is seeking an Engineering Manager for their Core Engineering department. This role will lead teams responsible for the company's infrastructure, networking, and transversal capabilities. The manager will shape the team's roadmap, enhance developer experience, and drive reliable delivery. Responsibilities include managing senior engineers, owning a core engineering domain, conducting code and architecture reviews, participating in recruiting, providing performance feedback and career development, and collaborating with technical and product counterparts to define team vision. The ideal candidate has experience building and leading lean teams, fostering inclusive environments, driving roadmaps, and has a background in engineering with familiarity in distributed systems, container orchestration, and various technologies within SeatGeek's stack.

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.

The Core Engineering department owns the infrastructure and networking that powers SeatGeek.com along with transversal capabilities in our stack ranging from application frameworks, developer experience to security and resilience.

As manager, you’ll lead one or more teams in core engineering, guiding the team as they transform a strong technical foundation into a resilient, user-focused product. Your role will be key in shaping the team’s roadmap, enhancing the developer experience, and driving faster, more reliable delivery across the company.

What you'll do

Manage a team of strong senior engineers

Own a transversal core engineering domain maintaining a high standard of operational excellence and driving tactical and strategic vision for this domain

Code and architecture reviews, and provide technical and design feedback to the team

Play an active role in our recruiting process, helping us grow our engineering team in any way you can

Provide regular job performance feedback, hold one-on-ones, and provide career development support to your direct reports

Work with your Technical and Product counterparts to form a compelling vision and direction for the team that aligns with organizational and business goals

Select new and work with existing technology vendors when necessary. You constantly make build or buy decisions together with your team

Communicate technical and product decisions to the right people, resolve blocking issues, and collaborate with other leaders across the organization

What you have

You’ve successfully built and led lean teams, ensuring they’re productive, motivated, and capable of delivering impactful results

You’re able to foster safe, collaborative & inclusive environments, where engineers feel empowered to do their best work

You’re great at shaping and driving complex, user-focused roadmaps, and keeping your team focused in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

You're able to break down complex technical concepts and explain them clearly to non-technical audiences, accurately representing the team's work to a wide range of stakeholders

Knowledge of the technology industry to help your team make good tooling and framework decisions to set them up for success

You understand how to lead by setting context, facilitating collaboration, and getting buy-in between cross functional partners in product, design, engineering and leadership

You’ve worked as an Engineer in the past, are familiar with the challenges of that role, and preferably have had hands-on experience with the following:

Tooling across our tech stack

Building out highly available and distributed systems, especially in regards to container orchestration systems

Our stack

Experience with every technology listed isn’t expected, we’ve included them for transparency. What matters most to us is your core engineering skills and ability to learn, not deep expertise in any one tool or language.

Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, C#, Go

Version control: GitLab

Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes / EKS, Terraform

Monitoring & Alerting: Datadog

Networking: Fastly, Kong, Cilium

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 $171,000 - $248,000 USD. This role is equity eligible. In addition, you may receive a discretionary annual bonus based on individual and company performance. Actual compensation packages 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.

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Sample SeatGeek interview questions

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Design a ticket reservation transfer system
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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