Senior Software Engineer, Platform

About the role

The Platform organization at SeatGeek provides a secure, reliable foundation for building and shipping products. By reducing complexity and offering well-supported, self-service tools and workflows, we enable teams across SeatGeek to move with confidence and focus on delivering great experiences.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support shared platform systems and tooling that help teams across SeatGeek develop and run services reliably
• Partner with engineering and product teams to address performance, scalability, and reliability needs as our marketplace and business grow
• Contribute to system reliability, observability, security, and scalability through automation and well-considered abstractions
• Participate in operating production systems, including supporting releases, taking part in an on-call rotation, and responding to incidents and support requests with guidance and collaboration from the team
• Collaborate across teams and disciplines to identify friction and improve how software is built and operated at SeatGeek
• Help evolve internal platforms, APIs, standards, and shared tooling to improve reliability and developer experience over time
• Participate in evaluating new technologies and patterns, balancing short-term needs with long-term maintainability and operational health
• Use automation and emerging tools, including AI-assisted workflows, to improve development and operational efficiency
• Share context and learnings through documentation, design discussions, and collaboration across teams

Requirements

Experience contributing to the design, development, or operation of shared systems, platforms, or infrastructure that support other engineers or teams

Familiarity with building, running, or improving production systems, and an interest in reliability, security, scalability, and safe ways to deploy and operate software

A thoughtful approach to writing and maintaining code, with attention to clarity, maintainability, and how others will use and operate what you build

An interest in developer experience and platform usability, including how tools, abstractions, and workflows affect team productivity and broader business goals

Comfort collaborating across teams and disciplines, communicating clearly, and turning broad needs into practical technical solutions with support from others

A commitment to learning and growth (both your own and your teammates’) through knowledge sharing, feedback, and continuous improvement

Qualifications

Languages: Python, Go, HCL, Yaml

Version control: GitLab

AI Tooling: Cursor, Claude

Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes / EKS, Terraform

Monitoring & Alerting: Datadog

Networking: Fastly, Kong, Cilium

Data: Kafka, Flink, Redshift

Skills

Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform

Knowledge of distributed systems and microservices architecture

Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Datadog

Ability to write clear, maintainable code

Benefits

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

AWFH stipend to support your home office setup

Unlimited PTO

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Pay

$144,000 - $209,000 USD

Schedule

Full-time