Eventbrite

Fullstack Software Engineer

Eventbrite

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THE CHALLENGE
Over the last decade, we have built a world-class SaaS platform for event organizers, enabling millions of events globally. Last year alone, our platform processed over 150 million tickets across over 3 million events organized by our creators. As our platform continues to grow, we need to continue investing in platform fundamentals in order to enable our engineering teams to be empowered and autonomous. Eventbrite is seeking a strong software engineer to join us in our mission to bring the world together through live experiences and help us take our platform to the next level.
The Risk and Fraud team helps our creators focus on putting on a great event, our participants focus on what events excite them, and both worry less about scams and fraud. We work closely with our data science team to learn what events are suspicious, if ticket buyers are using stolen credit cards, and finding new ways to shut down nefarious people. These are interesting and exciting problems to solve! There's always someone out there trying to take advantage of good people. On this team, you can help stop that.
Platform reliability, Keep the Eventbrite system secure and protect customers, Protect Eventbrite from fraud, spam abuseThe Risk & Fraud Group Platform reliability, Keep the Eventbrite system secure and protect customers , Protect Eventbrite from fraud, spam abuse As part of our platform we are building a team responsible for fraud and abuse detection and prevention.

THE TEAM
Our team is part of the Centralized Infrastructure pillar, providing value to the engineering organization by underpinning the foundation for our technology platform that enables our product to continually evolve. This team is dedicated to providing industry-standard based best practices for our platform through dynamic routing, service mesh, and service frameworks. We provide engineers throughout our organization the necessary tools to stay on the cutting edge of industry standards and remain agile and adaptable as new technologies become available.

The Risk and Fraud team is full of thoughtful and kind folks. We're all here to give Eventbrite creators and attendees a trusted marketplace. We all love to help each other learn and we have your back. You'll have the opportunity to work with smart stakeholders and developers. You'll face interesting challenges on this team!

THE ROLE
This role will leverage your deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, API design, and modern communication protocols. With your knowledge of the cloud, you will help build new microservices, migrate old monoliths, and manage shared tooling that makes all of that possible.

THE SKILL SET

    • You have 5+ years of experience and a proven track record of building software applications at scale in one or more mainstream programming languages as well as having developed web applications at scale using one or more mainstream web application frameworks
    • You have 3+ years working with relational databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL or non-relational databases like Elasticsearch and Redis
    • You have 2+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting containerized environments.
    • You have a meaningful understanding of modern microservices architecture.
    • You have a willingness to work with a distributed team across several neighboring timezones.
    • You develop code that is easily maintainable, thoroughly documented, and well tested.
    • You have an understanding of the tradeoffs between building new technology and buying existing technology.
    • You have a passion for learning and to mentor others.

Bonus Points

    • You have experience designing and developing APIs, including RPC and HTTP based APIs, ideally through an API Gateway platform such as Kong, Tyk, or Apigee.
    • Comfortable developing in a container environment like Docker
    • Familiarity with continuous integration tools like Jenkins or CircleCI
    • Experience with automated testing frameworks and methodologies
    • Experience with Terraform, Nomad, and other HashiCorp technologies
    • Has led teams in making architectural decisions
WHAT WE OFFER
At Eventbrite, we strive to support our Britelings and their loved ones through different stages of life with robust and attractive benefits, financial and physical wellness options, and great perks. In addition to offering a competitive salary and company stock, we have other great benefits available. In the Briteland, you'll find great medical plans, fertility and adoption benefits, wellness reimbursement, generous parental leave, and much more.

We care about your mental health and wellbeing.
Our employees enjoy free coaching sessions with Modern Health. We also offer free therapy sessions with a psychologist. You'll also have access to private medical insurance for you and your family, that includes dental care. And our wellness program to pay for your gym expenses.

We work hard to cultivate a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where Britelings feel like they belong.
Employees can participate in resource groups and we offer programming throughout the year to support a diverse and inclusive workplace.

We offer ongoing training and career development that meets people where they are in their careers.
We offer unlimited access to courses in Udemy, leadership coaching for all managers, Briteling led talks, and weekly company-wide town halls with our CEO. We take culture seriously and design programs with employee feedback in mind to make Eventbrite a great place to work no matter where you work from in the world.

Work-life balance & flexibility is extremely important to us.
Our employees can choose what works best for them: work in one of our offices, be fully remote or the best of both worlds! We believe in a flexible working environment to allow Britelings to perform at their best ensuring a healthy work-life balance. We have recently implemented Britebreak Fridays: all Britelings turn off their computers and take the first Friday of every month off to focus on their wellbeing.

ABOUT EVENTBRITE
Eventbrite is a global self-service ticketing and experience technology platform that serves a community of hundreds of thousands of event creators in nearly 180 countries. Since inception, Eventbrite has been at the center of the experience economy, transforming the way people organize and attend events. The company was founded by Julia Hartz, Kevin Hartz and Renaud Visage, with a vision to build a self-service platform that would make it possible for anyone to create and sell tickets to live experiences. The Eventbrite platform provides an intuitive, secure, and reliable service that enables creators to plan and execute their live and online events, whether it's an annual culinary festival attracting thousands of foodies, a professional webinar, a weekly yoga workshop or a youth dance class. With over 290 million tickets distributed for over 5 million total events in 2021, Eventbrite is where people all over the world discover new things to do or new ways to do more of what they love. Learn more at www.eventbrite.com.

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Eventbrite is a proud equal opportunity/affirmative action employer supporting workforce diversity. We do not discriminate based upon race, ethnicity, ancestry, citizenship status, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, mental or physical disability, political affiliation, status as a victim of domestic violence, assault or stalking, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Applicant Privacy Notice

Eventbrite believes that vaccines are one of the most powerful tools to fight COVID-19 and save lives. It aligns to our mission to bring the world back together through live experiences. Proof of completed COVID-19 vaccination will be required for all US applicants and employees to enter any Eventbrite office and/or interact in a physical setting with Eventbrite employees. Eventbrite will consider exceptions to this policy for medical or religious reasons on an individualized basis.




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Company name: Eventbrite
Remote job title: Fullstack Software Engineer
Job tags: Elasticsearch, web applications, MySQL

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