Senior Data Engineer, SeatGeek
Ticketing platform for live events
Job no longer available
Ticketing platform for live events
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To power a new, open entertainment industry where fans have effortless access to experiences, and team, venues, and shows have seamless access to their audiences.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ experience developing on and maintaining ETL systems, and a high level understanding of different data processing systems
- Experience working cross-functionally with different business units to translate business problems into data problems and solve them
- Comfort turning ideas into code
- Proficiency with analytical and operational SQL queries, and knowledge of how to optimize and troubleshoot
- Have experience with agile methodologies
Desirable
- Data-processing frameworks (Spark, Flink)
- Streaming data/message queues (Akka streams, Kafka)
- AWS infrastructure (we use Redshift, S3, EMR, Kinesis, Lambda, Glue, and RDS)
- Dimensional modeling, especially in e-commerce or consumer tech
- Database internals and tuning, trade-offs and benefits of different datastores (both analytical and transactional)
- Optimization of complex data workflows that reconcile batch and streaming data
- Dependency management at scale across multiple classes of data source
What the job involves
- Build a new stream ingestion process to efficiently send and store currently live listings as users see them
- Build and maintain our streaming data pipelines
- Create tooling and services that support our machine learning applications and data products
- Build a complete ecosystem for our enterprise clients (pro sports teams, Broadway theaters, etc.) to access their data in a more consolidated approach by: exposing API endpoints to pull data continuously, implementing the unified data warehouse and offering dashboards with relevant data for their businesses
- Communicate and collaborate with different stakeholders, like Data Scientists, Analysts, Software Engineers, and our Product team to produce requirements and detailed designs
Our take
For many fans, buying tickets online can be a time-consuming and frustrating process. SeatGeek is setting out to ease this problem by powering an open entertainment industry that provides fans with greater access to experiences, while enabling teams, venues, and shows to have seamless access to their audiences.
SeatGeek launched with a laser-sharp focus on creating a customer-oriented ticketing marketplace for sports and live events. Its commitment to optimizing fan experience has helped distinguish the company from rivals, such as Ticketmaster and Live Nation, with its expanding suite of simple features that have made it the highest-rated and most trusted ticketer.
SeatGeek has secured integration partnerships with Facebook, Spotify and Snapchat, and has an impressive client list that includes the Dallas Cowboys, Manchester City FC, and the Brooklyn Nets. It continues to onboard enterprise clients, expand its international presence and release new products such as "Next Fan Up", positioning it well for future success.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Aug 2022
$238m
SERIES E
Apr 2017
$75.3m
SERIES D
Total funding: $416.4m
Company benefits
- Benefits: We provide access to high-quality health insurance coverage, ample paid time off, and a matching 401k program.
- Parental leave: Congrats on welcoming a bundle of joy into your life! We offer 16 weeks of leave in a 12-month period.
- Subscriptions: Health and wellness are incredibly important so we cover employee subscriptions to services like One Medical, Ginger.io and Headspace.
- Team events: Regular virtual team hangs & happy hours are essential, especially while we’re all working remotely. We also put our typical day-to-day work aside for company-wide hackathons 3-4 times per year.
- Ticket perk: SeatGeek employees receive a monthly ticket-purchase stipend for live events!
- Flexible work environment: 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.
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Jack Groetzinger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Jack is also a Founding Partner at Founder Creative. Previously, he founded Scribnia and worked as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company.
Russell D'Souza
(Co-Founder)Previously, Russell co-founded Scribnia and worked as an Analyst at Monitor Group.
Eric Waller
(Co-Founder & CTO)Eric previously co-founded Niqos where he worked as a Web Developer for 3 years. He also served as a Web Developer at Tickerhound and as a User Experience Engineer at Amie Street.
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