Eventbrite is hiring a
Principal Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Principal Software Engineer at Eventbrite who will drive architectural changes, provide technical leadership, and collaborate with other teams. The candidate should have 10+ years of application development experience and advanced knowledge of complex software design, distributed system design, and cloud providers like AWS.

Requirements

• Understanding and application of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
• 10+ 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

Responsibilities

• Drive Eventbrite’s transition from self-hosted services to cloud-managed services, helping our teams build highly scalable, fault tolerant solutions for our users
• Educate other engineering teams and advocate for scalable and maintainable architectural decisions
• Collaborate closely with other Eventbrite engineering teams 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
• Work closely with AWS, leveraging a number of cloud native solutions to modernize the Eventbrite platform

Preferred Qualifications

• You enjoy teaching and mentoring others
• Experience working with modern frontend frameworks: React, Backbone/Marionette, etc

Benefits

• 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)