[All remote jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)[![SeatGeek logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2025/06/72d8f3a6-221.jpeg)](https://jobicy.com/company/seatgeek.md)[SeatGeek](https://jobicy.com/company/seatgeek.md) # Senior Software Engineer, Platform Review the role, location requirements, compensation details, and application process before deciding whether this opportunity fits your next career move. [Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/seatgeek.md)ShareRemote from[USA](https://jobicy.com/job-region/usa.md)SalaryUSD 144k–209k / yrDepartment[DevOps & Infrastructure](https://jobicy.com/categories/admin.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceSeniorPublished29 Sep 2026Apply before29 Oct 2026Listing views44Application actions2Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. AI Summary ## The role, at a glance. SeatGeek is seeking a senior platform engineer to strengthen the reliability, scalability, automation, and observability of its ticketing ecosystem. The role blends software engineering with infrastructure work across Kubernetes, cloud compute, networking, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and production operations. It supports high-traffic, multi-region workloads and includes an on-call rotation for critical live-event systems. The engineer will mentor peers, collaborate on autonomous production deployments, and create tools that improve developer experience and system resilience. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 5/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 4/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 4/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThis is a senior, business-critical platform role supporting high-load ticket onsales, multi-region infrastructure, and on-call operations. It requires deep troubleshooting ability across application, cloud, networking, observability, and deployment layers while also leading and mentoring others. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles. Estimated job medianMarket rate$176,500US market range$150k–$225k0$248k AI insightThe posted yearly base-salary range is $144,000 to $209,000 USD, with a midpoint of $176,500. For a US-based Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer working with Kubernetes, AWS, reliability engineering, and high-scale production systems, a comparable estimated market base-salary range is approximately $150,000 to $225,000 USD annually; equity and discretionary bonus may increase total compensation. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. [Platform Engineering](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Platform%20Engineering.md)[DevOps](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=DevOps.md)[Site Reliability Engineering](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Site%20Reliability%20Engineering.md)[Kubernetes](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Kubernetes.md)[AWS](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=AWS.md)[Infrastructure as Code](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Infrastructure%20as%20Code.md)[Terraform](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Terraform.md)[CI/CD](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=CICD.md)[Observability](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Observability.md)[Distributed Systems](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Distributed%20Systems.md) Sample interview questionsDescribe a time you improved the reliability of a business-critical production system.I would explain the initial reliability risks, the data used to prioritize them, and the technical changes made, such as defining service-level objectives, improving alerting, removing single points of failure, and automating recovery. I would quantify the outcome through uptime, incident reduction, recovery time, or deployment reliability. How would you prepare a ticketing platform for an unusually high-volume onsale event? I would begin with capacity modeling and load testing based on expected traffic patterns, then validate autoscaling, queueing, rate limiting, caching, database capacity, and regional failover. I would also establish event-specific dashboards, clear escalation paths, runbooks, and a controlled change freeze before the event. What is your approach to building useful observability for developers and operators? I start from user-impacting service-level indicators such as latency, errors, throughput, and saturation, then connect metrics, logs, traces, and deployment events for rapid diagnosis. I favor actionable alerts tied to service objectives, avoiding noisy alerts that do not require intervention. How have you used infrastructure as code to improve engineering outcomes? I use version-controlled, peer-reviewed infrastructure definitions to make environments repeatable, auditable, and safe to change. I pair this with automated validation, policy checks, reusable modules, and progressive deployment practices to reduce configuration drift and operational risk. How do you balance platform standardization with teams’ need for autonomy? I provide secure, well-documented paved roads for common workflows such as deployment, monitoring, secrets, and service configuration, while allowing justified exceptions. I gather feedback from application teams, measure adoption and friction, and evolve the platform based on real developer and operational needs. Opportunity details ## About this role. ### 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! 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