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SeatGeek
Actively Hiring
If life is an event, then we have the tickets
  • B2C
  • Scale Stage
    Rapidly increasing operations
  • Top Investors
    This company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
  • +4

Director, Cloud Engineering

Posted: 1 month ago
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About the job

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.

Reporting to the VP Engineering, the Director of Engineering is responsible for SeatGeek’s cloud infrastructure, the platform on which all of SeatGeek runs. You will be responsible for delivering on a wide range of initiatives to modernize our systems and to be on par with the best in the industry.

You will be focused on driving technology upgrades and improvements in performance, reliability, and operability. You will tackle important scale projects as SeatGeek expands into more markets, while also growing the enterprise customer base to hundreds. You will own a roadmap that strives to reach and continue to be at the cutting edge of technology innovation in this domain. The Cloud Infrastructure team also leads SeatGeek’s external technology presence by contributing to the various open-source projects that we use.

As a Director and member of the product and engineering leadership team, you will contribute to the development of SeatGeek’s short and long-term strategy, quarterly goals, yearly plans and budgets. You will be comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment, working on programs that have a wide, cross functional impact impact and company visible goals!

What you'll do

  • Work with engineering and product leaders across the business to identify high-impact programs of work; then develop concrete plans and recommendations on how best to deliver those programs given time, budget, and staffing constraints
  • Work closely with internal and external stakeholders, customers, and partners to help formulate plans, and evaluate success
  • Use both direct and indirect authority, execute critical projects, make business critical decisions, and provide frequent updates on progress
  • Manage project budgets, risk registers, dependencies, and communication plans
  • Use agile software delivery methods, break larger projects into smaller pieces, strive for incremental delivery
  • Identify key metrics for evaluating the success of your programs of work
  • Operate, monitor, and care for your applications and services in a production environment
  • Recruit and directly manage a team of high-caliber engineers and engineering managers
  • Advocate for the needs of your team(s) in the pursuit of efficacy and efficiency in delivery
  • Create a healthy culture that balances short-term urgency and long-term sustained performance and growth

What you have

  • Experience motivating teams to deliver complex, high impact projects in a fast-paced environment
  • The drive to find clarity from roughly scoped ideas and deliver concrete results
  • Ability to design and architect complex, inter-dependent distributed systems
  • Experience as a great cross-functional operator, utilizing influence and indirect authority to deliver results
  • Experience operating in a highly dynamic environment with frequently changing conditions and priorities
  • A strategic ability to assess the bigger picture in pursuit of ambitious goals
  • Ability to self direct towards goals, with high accountability and ownership of results.
  • Ability to problem solve, able to quickly digest a problem and evaluate solutions; able to balance competing priorities in alignment with business and department goals
  • Clear and concise communication skills; effective at all levels in an organization
  • Ability to make effective decisions under pressure and promote a calm and considered approach; Assertive when required, able to challenge and be challenged in a constructive and respectful way
  • A high motivation to consistently improve efficiency and quality of delivery

Our Stack

You do not need experience with all of these, but we thought you might be curious. What we care about is your experience, skills, and approach to problem solving. Tools can be learned.

  • Our applications run on: The Kubernetes ecosystem
  • Code versioning: Gitlab
  • Required languages: Python, Go

Perks

  • 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 paid family leave
  • 401(k) matching program
  • Health, vision, dental, and life insurance
  • Up to $25k towards family building services
  • $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

The salary range for this role is $243,000-$334,000. Actual compensation packages within that range are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years and depth of experience, certifications, and specific location.

SeatGeek is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, creed, age, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, military or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. As an equal opportunities employer, we recognize that diversity is a positive attribute and we welcome the differences and benefits that a diverse culture brings.

To review our candidate privacy notice, click here.

About the company

SeatGeek company logo

SeatGeek

Actively Hiring
If life is an event, then we have the tickets201-500 Employees
Company Size
201-500
Company Type
Startup
Company Industries
Vertical Search
Company Industries
Concerts
Company Industries
Ediscovery
  • B2C
  • Scale Stage
    Rapidly increasing operations
  • Top Investors
    This company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
  • Valuation $1B+
    This company has a valuation of $1B or more
  • 4.6
    Highly rated
    SeatGeek is highly rated on Glassdoor, with 4.6 out of 5 stars
  • 4.2
    Work / Life Balance
    Employees rate SeatGeek 4.2/5 on Glassdoor for work / life balance
  • 4.3
    Strong Leadership
    Employees rate SeatGeek 4.3/5 on Glassdoor for faith in leadership

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Funding

AMOUNT RAISED
$397M
FUNDED OVER
11 rounds
Rounds
E
$238,000,000
Series E - Aug 2022+10

Perks

TLC
We cover all the basics like health, dental, & vision, 401(k), and paid vacation. We also offer unlimited sick days, meditation benefits, and paid parental leave.
Parental Leave
Generous Vacation
Fully-Stocked Kitchen and Lunches
Our office is fully stocked with snacks and drinks. We have catered team lunches every week.
Wellness
Team Events
We have regular happy hours, go bowling, play board games, take ski trips, and even do an annual "Workation" retreat. We like to do stuff together.
Monthly Ticket Stipend
Employees get a monthly allowance to attend their favorite live events, from concerts to sporting events to theater.
State of the Art Setup
We'll get you set up with all the latest and greatest hardware and software to best do your job.
Freebies & Subsidies
Get a Citibike annual pass, a premium Spotify account, work anniversary gifts, team presents and more.

Founders

Jack Groetzinger
Founder • 3 years
New York
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Russell D'Souza
Founder • 3 years • 15 years
New York
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