[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 TimeExperienceSeniorPublished2 Nov 2026Apply before2 Dec 2026Listing views40Application actions1Application 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 hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Platform team to strengthen the infrastructure underpinning its consumer and enterprise ticketing products. The role combines software engineering with platform engineering across compute, networking, infrastructure as code, observability, deployment, and reliability. The engineer will design resilient systems for high-load ticket onsales, enable other development teams, mentor peers, and participate in on-call support. The environment uses AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Kafka, Datadog, GitLab CI, and several data and service-routing technologies. This is a US-remote role with optional office attendance and a disclosed USD salary range. ## 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 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 4/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThis is a senior platform role supporting business-critical, high-traffic ticketing workloads where reliability, scalability, and incident response are central. It requires broad systems expertise and the ability to make independent architectural decisions across multiple infrastructure domains. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles. Estimated job median (per year)Market rate$176,500US market range (per year)$155k–$220k0$242.00k AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. The employer discloses a salary range of $144,000–$209,000 USD. The annual cadence is inferred from the compensation magnitude for a US full-time senior engineering role and the posting’s reference to an annual bonus. Estimated US market compensation for comparable senior platform engineers is approximately $155,000–$220,000 USD per year. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. 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I would review database, cache, queue, and network bottlenecks; introduce rate limiting and graceful degradation where appropriate; and ensure dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and rollback plans are ready before the event. Describe how you would improve observability for a distributed service running on Kubernetes. I would define service-level indicators around availability, latency, error rate, and saturation, then instrument services with structured logs, metrics, and distributed traces. I would build dashboards that connect user-facing symptoms to infrastructure signals, establish actionable alert thresholds, and use post-incident findings to close monitoring gaps. What principles guide your infrastructure-as-code practices? I favor version-controlled, modular, reviewed, and repeatable infrastructure definitions. Changes should be validated through automated plans and tests, promoted consistently across environments, protected by least-privilege access, and paired with clear rollback procedures and documentation. How do you balance developer autonomy with production reliability? I provide paved-road tooling that makes safe behavior the easiest path: reusable deployment templates, sensible defaults, automated checks, observability integrations, and self-service documentation. Teams retain ownership of their services while platform guardrails reduce operational risk and make standards transparent. Tell us about your approach during an on-call incident involving elevated error rates. I first assess customer impact and stabilize the system through mitigation such as rollback, traffic controls, or capacity adjustments. I communicate status clearly, use dashboards and traces to narrow the fault domain, and document decisions throughout the response. After recovery, I lead a blameless review and prioritize concrete prevention work. 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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