Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

<h3><strong>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.</strong></h3> <p>The Platform organization helps turn that vision into reality by providing a secure and reliable foundation for building and shipping products. By reducing complexity and offering well-supported, self-service tools and workflows, we enable teams across SeatGeek to move with confidence, especially during the moments when our systems matter most.</p> <p>We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join SeatGeek’s Cloud Platform team in our Platform organization. In this role, you will help design, build, and operate the core cloud, compute, and networking platforms that support all of SeatGeek’s engineering teams. Cloud Platform engineers focus on scalable infrastructure, resilient networking, and well-defined golden paths that allow teams to ship safely and confidently.</p> <p>SeatGeek has more services and deployments than developers, which means automation, standards, and reliability must be the default. The Cloud Platform team supports both our Enterprise and Consumer businesses as we scale primary and secondary ticketing platforms used by world-class partners and millions of fans.</p> <p>If this role sounds interesting to you, we encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn’t match every requirement - we value curiosity, collaboration, and a willingness to learn!</p> <h3><strong>What you'll do</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Core Responsibilities</strong> <ul> <li>Design, build, and operate shared cloud and networking platforms that support a modern, containerized, service-oriented architecture</li> <li>Improve reliability, observability, security, and scalability through automation, standards, and well-considered abstractions</li> <li>Engineer resilient and observable networking infrastructure that supports a diverse set of workloads across regions and environments</li> <li>Build and maintain golden paths for compute, networking, and infrastructure to help teams deploy and operate services safely</li> <li>Participate in operating production systems, including supporting releases, taking part in an on-call rotation, and contributing to incident response and follow-up work</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Impact Opportunities</strong> <ul> <li>Partner with application and platform teams to reduce friction in deployment, routing, monitoring, and scaling</li> <li>Help evolve shared infrastructure tooling, APIs, and standards to improve reliability and developer experience over time</li> <li>Evaluate new technologies and patterns with a focus on maintainability and operational hea