Senior Software Engineer

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. Eventbrite is seeking a Senior Ads 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. Our perfect candidate will leverage their years of experience innovating within our consumer facing ads product creating value for both our event creators and consumers.

THE ROLE

Eventbrite Ads is taking off! We're expanding our team to accelerate the development of our innovative in-house ad platform. This is your chance to join a rapidly growing team at the forefront of event marketing technology and contribute to a product that's transforming the industry. Our team is currently looking for a customer obsessed, highly collaborative, and entrepreneurial person to join our scrappy squad expanding on this 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 TECH STACK

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.

MINDSET

• 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

• 5+ years experience building software applications
• Strong experience with high-level languages, specifically Python, Java, or Kotlin
• 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 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 deploying and managing applications on AWS (e.g., ECS/Fargate, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda).
• You are familiar with CI/CD 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
• Experience with event-driven architecture
• You have experience with ML at scale
• You have experience designing and developing Web APIs
• You have experience with Terraform or the AWS CDK
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