Senior Software Engineer - Buyer Pricing

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.

Senior Software Engineer - Buyer Pricing (StubHub, Inc., New York, NY)

Architect scalable, low-latency pricing systems that support real-time decision making and experimentation (20% of the time). Collaborate with Data Science to deploy, operate, and maintain pricing models and experimentation frameworks in production (10% of the time). Establish and maintain service level objectives (SLOs) to ensure reliability, performance, and operational excellence of pricing services (15% of the time). Implement data instrumentation processes to ensure accuracy, traceability, and visibility across pricing workflows (15% of the time). Assess and integrate new technologies that improve experimentation capabilities, operational efficiency, and system performance (5% of the time). Contribute to pricing governance for buyer-facing price determination, including documented decision policies, approval thresholds, and change-management controls for pricing logic and experiments (20% of the time). Develop self-serve tooling (guard railed configuration, experiment templates, observability dashboards, runbooks) that enables Product/Analytics to safely run initiatives with reduced engineering lift (10% of the time). Design and implement buyer pricing what-if simulation capabilities to assess counterfactual scenarios and quantify financial and behavioral impact prior to production rollout (5% of the time). Telecommuting may permitted up to 3 days per week. When not telecommuting, must report to Stubhub Inc at 3 World Trade Center -175 Greenwich Street, 59th Floor, New York, New York 10007. Salary: $200,000 - $250,000 per year.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus 5 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer or any occupation, job title, position involving designing and maintaining software platforms and pricing systems.

In lieu of a Bachelor’s degree plus 5 years of experience, the employer will accept a Master’s degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus 3 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer or any occupation, job title, position involving designing and maintaining software platforms and pricing systems.

Must also have experience in the following: 3 years of professional experience designing and developing large-scale, low-latency pricing or revenue-optimization systems that compute real-time ticket prices in high-volume transactional environments; 3 years of professional experience implementing observability and reliability frameworks for pricing services, including tracing and real-time anomaly detection; 3 years of professional experience architecting and maintaining pricing experimentation platforms, including executing A/B tests at scale, developing user cohort logic and automated experiment evaluation; 3 years of professional experience developing API contracts or event-driven systems that integrate pricing decisions with checkout and catalog platforms; and 3 years of professional experience collaborating with Product, Data Science, and Analytics stakeholders to translate pricing strategy into measurable technical outcomes that improve marketplace liquidity.

CONTACT: Apply online

The anticipated gross base pay range is below for this role. Actual compensation will vary depending on factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience, and competencies. Base annual salary is one component of StubHub’s total compensation and competitive benefits package, which includes equity, 401(k), paid time off, paid parental leave, and comprehensive health benefits. 

Salary Range

$200,000—$250,000 USD

About Us  

StubHub is the world’s leading marketplace to buy and sell tickets to any live event, anywhere. Through StubHub in North America and viagogo, our international platform, we service customers in 195 countries in 33 languages and 49 available currencies. With more than 300 million tickets available annually on our platform to events around the world -- from sports to music, comedy to dance, festivals to theater -- StubHub offers the safest, most convenient way to buy or sell tickets to the most memorable live experiences. Come join our team for a front-row seat to the action. 

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