THE CHALLENGE
Eventbrite is a people-first organization. Our goal of building the global platform for live experience relies on the foundation of top talent and strong company culture. Our team is the face of Eventbrite, and we’re charged with finding, attracting, and bringing on the best of the best to drive Eventbrite’s growing business and award-winning culture forward. Hiring the best talent globally is no easy feat. However, we have a talented team who has an inspiring story and mission. Our perfect candidate is someone who can connect that vision and story with top-notch talent.
The members of our team tackle big problems through small group collaboration. Our technology spans APIs, cloud technologies, backend, and frontend systems within the MarTech team. As a people-focused organization, we support a culture of inclusion, mentorship, and continuous learning. Pair programming, weekly demos, tech talks, and hackathons are at the core of how we build our team and product. We engage with the community by hosting events with exciting technical speakers and releasing key building blocks of our stack as open-source software.
Our engineering teams own their services and systems end to end from requirements gathering to deployment to maintenance. Team members follow an on-call rotation to ensure any issues are mitigated immediately and root causes are rectified.
As a Principal Software Engineer in Eventbrite’s Core Marketplace Services group, you will embody Eventbrite engineering’s culture of technical excellence and will help drive sweeping architectural changes as we modernize our platform. You’ll provide technical leadership across multiple teams like Identity (user management), Risk and Fraud, and other critical functions that serves over 5 million events in nearly 180 countries. As a Principal Software Engineer at Eventbrite, you will:
- Drive Eventbrite’s transition from monolith to micro services, helping our teams build highly scalable, fault tolerant solutions for our users
- Educate, mentor and coach other engineering teams and advocate for scalable and maintainable architectural decisions and engineering best practices.
- Collaborate closely with other Eventbrite engineering teams across the globe to build out additional observability throughout our stack utilizing tools like Datadog, AWS CloudWatch, and others.
- Investigate new technologies and tools and recommend those that best fit the team and organization. Helping the organization to evaluate solutions and approaches and zeroing down by doing hands-on Proof of Concepts.
- Work closely with AWS, leveraging a number of cloud native solutions to modernize the Eventbrite platform.
THE SKILL SET
- Understanding and application of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
- 15+ years of application development and design experience with modern languages like Python, Kotlin, etc.
- Advanced knowledge of complex software design, distributed system design, design patterns, data structures and algorithms.
- Deep understanding of cloud providers such as AWS, and cloud architectures and design patterns.
- Track record of delivering successful solutions and collaborating with others.
- You enjoy teaching and mentoring others
BONUS POINTS
- You have experience working with modern frontend frameworks: React, Backbone/Marionette, etc
- Active Eventbrite user with a passion for live events
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.
BENEFITSWe 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 OPPORTUNITYAt 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.
