Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Supply

About the Opportunity: 

StubHub is looking for Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design and develop next-generation technologies and complex features. As a Senior SRE at StubHub, you will be at the forefront of tackling significant, ambiguous, and non-trivial challenges as a core contributor and innovator, bringing creative technical solutions to life. In order to ensure our company's success, our engineers must demonstrate initiative and enthusiasm for the problems they tackle. 

We have multiple roles open under the following areas for our Supply Engineering org: 

Infrastructure: This role centers on orchestrating our release and build processes. You will meticulously monitor system stability, scrutinizing memory usage and gaining deep insights into application functionality within our infrastructure. You will lead the development of cutting-edge CI/CD pipelines, streamlining our development workflows. 

Performance: As the guardian of performance excellence, this role is dedicated to minimizing regressions and optimizing system performance. Through meticulous API and UI load testing, you will continuously assess performance, identifying and remedying bottlenecks with proactive precision. Given our extensive queuing architecture, including cloud-based queues, your expertise in evaluating and enhancing our queue management systems will be paramount as we scale. 

Quality: This role is dedicated to fortifying our quality assurance arsenal, where you will create sophisticated tooling and automation frameworks for comprehensive testing. You will identifyoptimal testing methodologies, orchestrate daily test runs, ensure pre-release signoff, and ensure monitoring test integrity. You will architect the infrastructure necessary to foster isolated testing environments, ensuring consistent reliability and accuracy. 

This role will be based in our Los Angeles (Santa Monica) or Irvine office and has a hybrid (3 in-person days per week) work schedule. 

• Build out and maintain an observability platform to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of critical systems. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and address potential bottlenecks, optimize resource utilization, and proactively prevent system failures. 
• Drive the implementation of automation tools and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices to streamline deployment processes, configuration management, and infrastructure provisioning. 
• Help develop a center of excellence, fostering a culture of empowering teams to continuously and reliably deliver customer value 
• Develop processes, tools and automation to reduce toil across engineering teams 
• Ensure Systems effectively balance cost, perfomance and reliability at scale

• Extensive experience (typically 5 years) in a site reliability engineering or a related role, demonstrating a strong command of incident management, mitigation, & prevention, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.  
• Proficient in programming languages such as Python, Java, C#, or C .  
• Experience with cloud computing (AWS, GCP, Azure)  
• A strong track record of aggressively identifying and removing toil through process optimization, automation and system design  
• Demonstrated ability to write and maintain code for automation, infrastructure orchestration, and reliability tooling.  
• Demonstrated understanding of large scale observability platforms and tools   
• Understanding of orchestration system such as Kubernetes  

• Accelerated Growth Environment: Immerse yourself in an environment designed for swift skill and knowledge enhancement, where you have the autonomy to lead experiments and tests on a massive scale.
• Top Tier Compensation Package: Enjoy a rewarding compensation package that includes enticing stock incentives, aligning with our commitment to recognizing and valuing your contributions.
• Flexible Time Off: Embrace a healthy work-life balance with unlimited Flex Time Off, providing you the flexibility to manage your schedule and recharge as needed.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Prioritize your well-being with a comprehensive benefits package, featuring 401k, and premium Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance options.
• Team-Building Events: Engage in vibrant team events that foster camaraderie and collaboration, creating an atmosphere where your professional and personal growth are celebrated.

The anticipated gross annual base salary range for this role is $200,000 – $275,000 per year. Actual compensation will vary depending on factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience, and competencies. Base annual salary is one component of StubHub’s total compensation and competitive benefits package, which also includes equity, 401(k), paid time off, paid parental leave, and comprehensive health benefits.