Software Engineer II - Core Platform (Devops)

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 focused on developer experience and architecture. Our ideal candidate is someone that is willing to work on deep problems and can also explain and help others learn and adopt solutions.

THE TEAM

We work on foundational aspects key to making our Development teams successful. We are responsible for the efficiency of the software development lifecycle for our applications. This includes proposing and building new application architecture and building tooling to create a more pleasant developer experience while at the same time keeping our core systems up to date.

THE ROLE

We are looking for a creative problem solver and communicative engineer that’s interested in Systems Engineering. This team is a newly formed team in 2023 whose mandate is to increase the speed, quality, and efficiency of the engineering organization. We are at a point wherein the number of services and infrastructure pieces we’re dealing with everyday has become unwieldy and we need highly skilled engineers on the devtools infrastructure team to scale our capabilities. As a Software Engineer II you will be responsible for implementing the infrastructure and tooling that powers the software delivery pipeline. This role includes participation in an on-call rotation to support software delivery pipelines & systems.

THE TECH STACK

Eventbrite is one of the world’s largest Django-powered sites by request volume. Python, Django, and MySQL are the primary off-the-shelf technologies in our stack. We are hosted on AWS.Because this team interfaces with many other teams, there’s potential to work with a variety of other backend technologies in our stack, including Redis, Kafka, ElasticSearch to name a few. On the frontend, we make extensive use of React and Redux.

THE SKILL SET

• 2 years of DevOps industry experience with at least:
• Experience developing Docker containers
• Experience working with cloud technologies (AWS preferred)
• Experience working with software delivery pipelines
• Strong coders with deep expertise in data structures, algorithms, OOP, multithreading, design patterns, and scalable system design
• Willingness to work on a distributed team
• Efficient, practical programmer with a record of producing maintainable code
• Great communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to a varied audience

BONUS POINTS

• Experience with Python or GO
• Open source contributions
• Experience with defining software delivery pipelines (AWS technologies preferred: CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and CodePipeline)
• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
• Past experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
• Past experience as a software developer
• Experience defining SLOs/SLAs, implementing alerting, monitoring, writing runbooks and with monitoring and logging tools (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch,...)
• Experience with Kafka
• Experience with IaC: Terraform and CDK
• Experience with Hashicorp’s products: Nomad, Vault and Consul
• Experience with container security

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.