Staff Software Engineer - Direct Issuance (Aliso Viejo)

Staff Software Engineer - Direct Issuance

StubHub is on a mission to redefine the live event experience on a global scale. Whether someone is looking to attend their first event or their hundredth, we're here to delight them all the way from the moment they start looking for a ticket until they step through the gate. The same goes for our sellers. From fans selling a single ticket to the promoters of a worldwide stadium tour, we want StubHub to be the safest, most convenient way to offer a ticket to the millions of fans who browse our platform around the world.

StubHub is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to drive the next generation of technology that powers how millions of fans explore, interact with, and attend live events worldwide. You'll lead a high-impact engineering team from a technical standpoint, driving key architectural decisions, trade-offs, delivering critical systems that enable trustworthy, scalable, and insightful experimentation across all consumer-facing and internal applications.

As a strategic technical leader, you'll define architecture, ship robust systems rapidly, and raise the technical bar for your team and across the organization. You'll translate ambiguous business needs into executable strategies, produce detailed workplans enabling parallel engineering execution, and drive measurable improvements in quality, performance, and feature velocity. You'll be deeply embedded in shaping our commercial and product strategy, leveraging domain expertise to make decisions that reflect both user needs and business value.

Why We Need You

Imagine a world where attending any live event is just a click awaya world where the excitement starts not at the gate, but the moment they decide to go. That world is built by you. Without your skills, without your dedication to enhancing the user journey through innovation and technology, the magic fades. You are the architect of dreams for millions of fans. Without you, there's no journey to begin.

Location : Hybrid (3 days in office / 2 days remote) Los Angeles, CA or Aliso Viejo, CA

About the Team

Join StubHub's Direct Issuance team as a Staff Engineer to architect and build the next generation of our partner inventory synchronization platform. You'll work on high-impact systems that enable ticket partners to seamlessly integrate their inventory with StubHub's marketplace, directly affecting millions of ticket buyers and thousands of partner relationships.

What You'll Do

• Drive Impact-Maximization Initiatives : Lead architectural decisions that create step-function capability increases, enabling new partner integrations and unlocking previously impossible problem spaces
• Solve Complex Technical Problems : Tackle challenging distributed systems problems involving real-time inventory synchronization, hash-based change detection, and AI-powered diagnostics at massive scale
• Champion User Experience : Design partner-facing APIs and integration experiences that make integrating with our platform simple
• Build AI-First Solutions : Leverage Claude AI and other ML technologies to create intelligent systems
• Lead Technical Strategy : Drive execution-efficiency improvements across the sync pipeline, from partner API integrations through marketplace publishing
• Mentor and Guide : Influence technical direction while coaching other engineers on architectural patterns, problem-solving approaches, and operational excellence practices

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What We Offer :

The anticipated gross base pay range is below for this role. 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 includes equity, 401(k), paid time off, paid parental leave, and comprehensive health benefits.

Salary Range

$300,000 - $350,000 USD

About Us

StubHub is the world's leading marketplace to buy and sell tickets to any live event, anywhere. Through StubHub in North America and viagogo, our international platform, we service customers in 195 countries in 33 languages and 49 available currencies. With more than 300 million tickets available annually on our platform to events around the world from sports to music, comedy to dance, festivals to theater StubHub offers the safest, most convenient way to buy or sell tickets to the most memorable live experiences. Come join our team for a front-row seat to the action.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity on our team. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.