Seatgeek
Senior Software Engineer, Platform
New York, New York · Senior
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$21,589 more — $165,589 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $165,589 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- You'll improve the systems that power the entirety of SeatGeek's technology ecosystem.
- We'll be interested in hearing about what you've built and how - Experience solving complex technical challenges.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Experience building business critical software in a fast-paced environment. We'll be interested in hearing about what you've built and how
- SeatGeek engineers create custom solutions to unique ticketing problems, including high traffic onsales, interactive venue maps, inventory tracking, and event matching.
Requirements
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and serverless compute platforms
- Experience with continuous integration, delivery, testing, and code deployment
- You do not need experience with all of these, but we thought you might be curious.
- You have well-considered opinions about how software and reliable infrastructure should work, and hold yourself and your code to a high standard
Skills
- SeatGeek believes live events are powerful experiences that unite humans.
Compensation
- Annual subscription to Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon music
- The salary range for this role is $144,000 - $209,000 USD.
Benefits
- 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
- Up to 16 weeks of fully-paid family leave
- 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
- This role is equity eligible.
- 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.
Company info
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join SeatGeek's Platform team.
- Participate in an on-call schedule to help our customers experience more live
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