Senior Data Engineer, SeatGeek
Finance
$140-200k
+ Equity stake
Ticketing platform for live events
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Ticketing platform for live events
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$140-200k
+ Equity stake
501-1000 employees
Company mission
SeatGeek’s mission is to help the world to experience more live.
Role
Who you are
- If you are passionate about modernizing financial infrastructure, modeling complex revenue flows, and giving teams data they can trust, this is your opportunity to transform how we think about money at SeatGeek
- 3 - 5 years of relevant experience with a track record in Analytics or Data Engineering
- A bachelor’s degree or higher in economics, psychology, computer science, statistics, mathematics or another quantitative discipline
- Expert-level knowledge of SQL. Proficiency in programming with Python
- Experience developing new metrics and performing analysis with large datasets
- Experience building reports and dashboards using business intelligence tools
- Familiarity with the interface between streaming production data and a data warehouse environment
- Familiarity with DBT
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Data Engineer to join SeatGeek’s Finance Engineering team
- FinEng is a dedicated team focused on getting our arms around the finance and accounting data that SeatGeek generates across the business
- As a Data Engineer, you will own our Finance Data Warehouse and the tooling we use to get financial data from transactional systems into our finance automation stack, and ensure the results reach the hands of users, business applications, and other analytics tools
- You will shape long-term projects aimed at marshaling data from across the organization, improving performance and utility, and ensuring data is represented in the clearest, most usable form possible
- You’ll execute from start to finish, and ensure projects align with business objectives while cultivating a collaborative team environment
- You will work with managers to improve existing processes aimed at keeping our technical bar high
- Above all, your work will drive us toward our mission of making SeatGeek the top destination for live event goers by putting data at the heart of everything we do
- SeatGeek’s finance stack supports the reporting and operationalization of billions of dollars in transactions and settlements across diverse revenue streams and dozens of production systems
- As the company grows, our current pipelines need significant upgrades to keep pace with the scale and complexity of our financial operations
- Integrating new sources of truth, improving data accuracy, and building more reliable and auditable flows of money are essential to our next chapter
- You'll work with tools like dbt, Python, PostgreSQL and cloud data warehouses—but just as importantly, you'll rethink and rebuild the systems that power our understanding of fan purchases, marketplace settlements, and unit economics
- Build the tooling that gets financial data into our finance automation systems and Finance Data Warehouse
- Own our Finance Data Warehouse. Collaborate to develop new features that render our warehouse more intuitive and efficient for end users
- Communicate and collaborate with different stakeholders, like Finance, Accounting, Data Scientists, Analysts, Data Platform Engineers, and our Product team to institute best practices aimed at managing data quality
- Create definitions and documentation of our data sources, making ownership crystal clear
- Work closely with the Finance Engineering team to build efficient data modeling solutions
- Own our process for ensuring our results get into the right hands at the right time
- Our stack:
- ETL: Python, dbt, & Kafka
- Data Warehouse: Redshift
- Relational DBs: PostgreSQL
- Dashboarding: Looker & Hex
- Code versioning: GitLab
- Required languages: SQL and Python
- Relevant SaaS Tools: Workato, Leapfin, NetSuite
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
$76.8m
SERIES D
Total funding: $418m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance Coverage
- Ample Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching Program
- Parental Leave - 16 weeks of leave in a 12-month period
- Health and wellness subscriptions to services like One Medical, Ginger.io and Headspace
- Regular virtual team hangs & happy hours + Company-Wide Hackathons 3-4 times per Year
- SeatGeek Monthly Ticket-Purchase Stipend
- Flexible work environment - Work as many days a week in the office as you'd like, or 100% remotely
- WFH Office Setup Stipend
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Jack Groetzinger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked as a consultant for Bain. Founded and sold another startup, Scribnia, before founding SeatGeek.
Russell D'Souza
(Co-Founder)Worked as an analyst for Monitor. Founded and sold another startup, Scribnia, before founding SeatGeek.
Eric Waller
(Co-Founder)Worked as a Web Developer at Tickerhound. Co-founded and was a Web Developer at Niqos.
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