Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SeatGeek believes live events are powerful experiences that unite humans. They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their Cloud Platform team, where you will design, build, and operate core cloud, compute, and networking platforms that support all engineering teams at SeatGeek.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate shared cloud and networking platforms that support a modern, containerized, service-oriented architecture
- Improve reliability, observability, security, and scalability through automation, standards, and well-considered abstractions
- Engineer resilient and observable networking infrastructure that supports a diverse set of workloads across regions and environments
- Build and maintain golden paths for compute, networking, and infrastructure to help teams deploy and operate services safely
- Participate in operating production systems, including supporting releases, taking part in an on-call rotation, and contributing to incident response and follow-up work
- Partner with application and platform teams to reduce friction in deployment, routing, monitoring, and scaling
- Help evolve shared infrastructure tooling, APIs, and standards to improve reliability and developer experience over time
- Evaluate new technologies and patterns with a focus on maintainability and operational health
- Use automation and AI-assisted workflows to improve development and operational efficiency
- Share context and learnings through documentation, design discussions, and mentorship
Skills
- Experience contributing to the design, development, or operation of cloud and infrastructure platforms that support other engineers or teams
- Hands-on experience running production workloads on AWS, including designing and operating infrastructure using Terraform or similar infrastructure as code tools
- Experience building, operating, or supporting systems on Kubernetes (EKS), including containerized workloads and supporting platform services
- Experience designing or operating service networking and routing, such as service discovery, traffic management, or edge routing using tools like Cilium, Envoy, Kong, or Fastly
- Familiarity with observability practices and tools such as Datadog, and using metrics, logs, and traces to diagnose issues and improve system reliability
- Ability to write and maintain automation or tooling in Go, Python, or Bash, with an emphasis on clarity, safety, and long-term maintainability
- A thoughtful approach to engineering craftsmanship, including clean abstractions, readable code, and systems that are easy for others to operate
- Comfort collaborating across teams, explaining infrastructure and networking concepts clearly, and turning broad needs into practical technical solutions
- Commitment to learning and growth through knowledge sharing, documentation, and mentorship
Benefits
- Equity stake
- 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
- $120 per month to spend on tickets to live events
- Annual subscription to Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon music
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