Principal Software Engineer
Remote in Hyderabad, Bangalore - India
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 TEAM
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.
THE ROLE
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 TECH STACK
Our primary stack is Python/Django, NodeJS and Kotlin based microservices, running on the AWS platform. In addition to self-managed infrastructure like RabbitMQ and Kafka, we heavily rely on various AWS services such as Aurora, OpenSearch, ElastiCache, and many others. We also leverage the HashiCorp toolset in our stack (Consul, Nomad, Vault, and Terraform).
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
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Principal Software Engineer
Remote in Hyderabad, Bangalore - India
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 TEAM
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.
THE ROLE
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 TECH STACK
Our primary stack is Python/Django, NodeJS and Kotlin based microservices, running on the AWS platform. In addition to self-managed infrastructure like RabbitMQ and Kafka, we heavily rely on various AWS services such as Aurora, OpenSearch, ElastiCache, and many others. We also leverage the HashiCorp toolset in our stack (Consul, Nomad, Vault, and Terraform).
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