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