Software Engineer I - Core Compute Platform

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. Platform Engineer - Core Compute Platform - SDE1 We are seeking a skilled Platform Engineer to join the Core Compute team. This role is central to the design, development, and maintenance of our end-to-end Compute Platform.

Responsibilities

include provisioning, maintaining, and optimizing the platform, as well as creating the interfaces and tooling that enable our internal users to run critical production services, internal tooling, and facilitate AI Agent and model training. About the Compute Platform Team The Compute Platform team's goal is to deliver an intuitive, performant, and cross-language environment for hundreds of services across StubHub. We own the platform that empowers developers to accelerate their work and focus on business objectives by abstracting and automating complex, common concerns.

This includes deployment, configuration, service discovery, and day 2 operations for their entire service fleet. We operate the Platform as a product, not a service desk, promoting self-service, providing "easy buttons," and fostering empowerment over rigid controls and gates.

What You'Ll Do

: Platform Evolution AI Readiness: Support the evolution of our core compute platform, primarily EKS in AWS, to facilitate rapid iteration and development driven by AI and Agentic development workflows. Developer Enablement: Boost engineering efficiency and productivity by designing and building powerful, reusable tools, including high-leverage SDKs, services, and shared packages. Simplification Velocity: Maximize developer velocity and minimize cognitive load by creating intuitive platform interfaces and abstractions that simplify underlying complexity.

Strategic Partnership: Collaborate with senior engineers to assist engineering teams and identify technical improvements. Performance Reliability: Assist in initiatives to enhance platform performance and reliability by contributing to automation and tooling. Quality and Best Practices: Champion high standards of quality and efficiency by promoting and enforcing software development best practices across the organization.

High-Velocity Execution: Contributing to technical initiatives in partnership with senior team members. Culture: Foster a positive, inclusive team culture where diverse perspectives are valued and drive technical innovation. What You've Done: Graduating in Spring/Summer 2026 with a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, EECS, Statistics, or a related technical field.

Passion for building the platforms and infrastructure that power large-scale applications, with an eagerness to learn about distributed systems, scalability, and reliability. Experience through internships, research, or personal projects using one or more programming languages such as Python, Go, Java, or C#. Exposure to cloud technologies and modern infrastructure concepts, including Kubernetes, AWS, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Crossplane), or similar tools.

A problem-solving mindset and excitement for tackling technical challenges that have real impact on developers and customers. Curiosity about how complex systems work together in production, with a desire to build reliable, scalable services that other engineers depend on every day. A growth mindset with the ability to quickly learn new technologies, frameworks, and tools in a fast-paced environment.