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With our technological savvy and fan-first attitude we’re simplifying and modernizing the ticketing industry.\nThe Core Engineering department owns the infrastructure and networking that powers SeatGeek.com along with transversal capabilities in our stack ranging from application frameworks, developer experience to security and resilience. \nAs manager, you’ll lead one or more teams in core engineering, guiding the team as they transform a strong technical foundation into a resilient, user-focused product. Your role will be key in shaping the team’s roadmap, enhancing the developer experience, and driving faster, more reliable delivery across the company.\nWhat you'll do\nManage a team of strong senior engineers\nOwn a transversal core engineering domain maintaining a high standard of operational excellence and driving tactical and strategic vision for this domain\nCode and architecture reviews, and provide technical and design feedback to the team\nPlay an active role in our recruiting process, helping us grow our engineering team in any way you can\nProvide regular job performance feedback, hold one-on-ones, and provide career development support to your direct reports\nWork with your Technical and Product counterparts to form a compelling vision and direction for the team that aligns with organizational and business goals\nSelect new and work with existing technology vendors when necessary. You constantly make build or buy decisions together with your team\nCommunicate technical and product decisions to the right people, resolve blocking issues, and collaborate with other leaders across the organization\nWhat you have\nYou’ve successfully built and led lean teams, ensuring they’re productive, motivated, and capable of delivering impactful results\nYou’re able to foster safe, collaborative & inclusive environments, where engineers feel empowered to do their best work\nYou’re great at shaping and driving complex, user-focused roadmaps, and keeping your team focused in a fast-paced, dynamic environment\nYou'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\nKnowledge of the technology industry to help your team make good tooling and framework decisions to set them up for success\nYou understand how to lead by setting context, facilitating collaboration, and getting buy-in between cross functional partners in product, design, engineering and leadership\nYou’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:\nTooling across our tech stack\nBuilding out highly available and distributed systems, especially in regards to container orchestration systems\nOur stack\nExperience with every technology listed isn’t expected, we’ve included them for transparency. What matters most to us is your core engineering skills and ability to learn, not deep expertise in any one tool or language.\nLanguages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, C#, Go\nVersion control: GitLab \nInfrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes / EKS, Terraform\nMonitoring & Alerting: Datadog\nNetworking: Fastly, Kong, Cilium\nPerks\nEquity stake\nDiscretionary annual bonus\nFlexible work environment, allowing you to work as many days a week in the office as you’d like or 100% remotely\nA WFH stipend to support your home office setup\nUnlimited PTO\nUp to 16 weeks of fully-paid family leave \n401(k) matching \nStudent loan matching program\nHealth, vision, dental, and life insurance\nUp to $25k towards family building, reproductive health services and Gender-affirming care\n$500 per year for wellness expenses\nSubscriptions to Headspace (meditation), Headspace Care (therapy), and One Medical\n$360 per quarter to spend on tickets to live events\nAnnual subscription to Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon music\nThe salary range for this role is $171,000 - $248,000 USD. 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