Staff Software Engineer - Ads
THE CHALLENGE
Eventbrite is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join us in our mission to bring the world together through live experiences. Last year alone, our platform processed over 150 million tickets across over 3 million events organized by our creators. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to build beautiful, responsive, delightful, and intuitive user interfaces that our creators and attendees are excited to use every day.
THE TEAM
The Eventbrite Ads team is tackling a new challenge by building a new internal ad platform that aims to help our creators get better results with their marketing dollars. Our team is currently looking for a customer obsessed, highly collaborative, and entrepreneurial person to join our scrappy squad bringing this new platform out of beta and into a revenue generating powerhouse. You will contribute to Eventbrite engineering’s culture of technical excellence through inclusivity, knowledge sharing, and mentorship. This is more than an opportunity to join an amazing team, it is a chance to impact Eventbrite’s platform and organization at scale.
THE ROLE
We heavily leverage AWS technology to get the job done. On any given day you will be working with Lambdas, ECS and Fargate, Serverless Aurora, API Gateway, Terraform, Docker, Kinesis, and much more! We are committed to scalability through serverless applications where it makes sense.
YOU WILL
- You work collaboratively with your teams
- You enjoy mentoring and teaching colleagues at all levels, while also learning from them
- You know diversity is not an old wooden ship
- You feel modeling great behaviors set the culture and is important to success
THE SKILLSET
- 6+ years of experience building software applications
- Strong experience high-level languages, specifically Python
- Experience with MySQL, Aurora, or other RDBMS
- You are data-driven and know how to find the data you need to support your ideas
- You have experience with ML at scale
- You have experience designing and developing APIs
- You care about making sure your code is maintainable and well tested
- You can influence architectural designs across the stack and languages
- You are a pragmatic programmer that understands how to balance quality, time to ship, and cost
- You are solution oriented constantly driving towards better outcomes for your customers
- You have experience with AWS & Terraform
- You are familiar with CICD tools and processes
- You can improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- You have a holistic approach to quality
BONUS POINTS FOR
- Experience building in the backend of an ad platform
- Experience building the backend in a reporting platform
- Experience with Timestream, Elasticsearch, or Snowflake
ABOUT EVENTBRITE
At Eventbrite everyone is invited to be their whole self and we cultivate an environment to make sure that is feasible throughout the entirety of an individual's time at Eventbrite. We are committed to providing competitive, valuable and meaningful benefits and experiences for our employees to ensure we meet them where they are in life.
Cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where all people are invited and belong is our top priority.
Employees can participate in resource groups and we offer global programming and training throughout the year to support a diverse and inclusive workplace. Read more about our Diversity and Inclusion work for our team, culture, and community.
BENEFITS
We offer comprehensive benefits and a wellness package above and beyond standard medical benefits to support our Britelings’ lifestyle.
Eventbrite's global benefit programs are designed to meet you where you are by offering resources and support for your health, well-being, finances, and family. This includes support in a remote environment, wellness allowance, Carrot family planning benefit, Origin Financial Planning service, and other offerings to ease the mind and body like Modern Health and BriteBreaks (generally the first Friday of every month off).
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
At Eventbrite, we are dedicated to fostering diversity, equity and inclusion. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds, abilities and experiences to apply, and we make employment decisions on the basis of merit. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender reassignment, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics, or any other legally protected characteristic.
If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during any part of the interview process, please let your recruiter know.