Engineering Manager

Summary

Join SeatGeek's Cloud Platform team as a manager to lead the next phase of platform development. You will manage a team of Platform engineers, own SeatGeek’s computing and networking infrastructure, and perform code and architecture reviews. The role involves active participation in recruiting, providing performance feedback, and collaborating with cross-functional partners. You will shape the team's roadmap, enhance developer experience, and drive faster, more reliable delivery. This leadership position requires experience building and leading lean teams, fostering inclusive environments, and shaping user-focused roadmaps. The ideal candidate possesses strong technical skills and communication abilities.

Requirements

• You’ve successfully built and led lean teams, ensuring they’re productive, motivated, and capable of delivering impactful results
• You’re able to foster safe, collaborative & inclusive environments, where engineers feel empowered to do their best work
• You’re great at shaping and driving complex, user-focused roadmaps, and keeping your team focused in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• You're able to break down complex technical concepts and explain them clearly to non-technical audiences, accurately representing the team's work to a wide range of stakeholders
• Knowledge of the technology industry to help your team make good tooling and framework decisions to set them up for success
• You understand how to lead by setting context, facilitating collaboration, and getting buy-in between cross functional partners in product, design, engineering and leadership

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of Platform engineers
• Own SeatGeek’s computing and networking infrastructure, maintaining a high standard of operational excellence across the platform
• Perform code and architecture reviews, and provide technical and design feedback to the team
• Play an active role in our recruiting process, helping us grow our engineering team in any way you can
• Provide regular job performance feedback, hold one-on-ones, and provide career development support to your direct reports
• Work with your Technical and Product counterparts to form a compelling vision and direction for the team that aligns with organizational and business goals
• Select new and work with existing technology vendors when necessary. You constantly make build or buy decisions together with your team
• Communicate technical and product decisions to the right people, resolve blocking issues, and collaborate with other leaders across the organization

Preferred Qualifications

• You’ve worked as an Engineer in the past, are familiar with the challenges of that role, and preferably have had hands-on experience with the following: Tooling across our tech stack
• Building out highly available and distributed systems, especially in regards to container orchestration systems
• Layers 3-7 of the OSI model

Benefits

• Equity stake
• 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 program
• Student loan support resources
• Health, vision, dental, and life insurance
• Up to $25k towards family building and reproductive health services
• Gender-affirming care support program
• $500 per year for wellness expenses
• Subscriptions to Headspace (meditation), Headspace Care (therapy), and One Medical
• $120 per month to spend on tickets to live events
• Annual subscription to Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon music