Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Ads Ranking

THE CHALLENGE

Eventbrite is a global self-service ticketing platform for live experiences that allows anyone to create, share, find and attend events that fuel their passions and enrich their lives. Our mission is to bring the world together through live experiences. In this role, you will have the opportunity to apply and develop your expertise in ways that help bring people together. You will be a founding member of an early-stage, entrepreneurial, and fast-paced team, focused on problems at the core of Eventbrite’s long-term strategy. Along with your peers, you will grow as both a technical contributor, and a leader.

THE TEAM

Millions of creators are turning to Eventbrite to connect with our dataset of hundreds of millions of attendees. The ideal candidate will have the broad range of technical skills required to deliver data-driven solutions. They will be up to date on best practices in deep learning and ads/recommendation systems with familiarity in the state-of-the-art research in the field. They will be experienced in building and scaling processes which compute over massive amounts and velocities of data. You will be among a talented group of engineers tasked with developing ad bidding and delivery systems. Finally, an ideal candidate will be working closely with stakeholders to translate technical insight into tactics and strategic opportunities.

THE ROLE

You will be building data pipelines and machine learning workflows to support the creation of a new advertising product. You will derive insights from Eventbrite’s massive attendee dataset to guide the development of ad delivery and auction systems. Your success in this endeavor will be directly responsible for a highly-visible new portion of Eventbrite’s business. 

THE TECH STACK

As this is a new team and a new product, you will have significant input on the tech stack that is used. That being said, Eventbrite uses a modern, service-oriented architecture with extensive existing data science infrastructure. Our existing data pipelines are managed by luigi and run on AWS EMR, so you would be interacting with these technologies extensively.

THE SKILL SET

• 5+ years of programming experience
• Results driven self starter with excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Strong experience designing/training/deploying machine learning models in production environments
• Working experience with Pytorch or Tensorflow
• Experience with recommendations systems and/or real time CTR prediction
• Experience with Apache Spark or other distributed analytics framework
• Master’s degree or PhD in a technical field (CS/Math/Stats/Engineering)

BONUS POINTS

• Familiarity with the AdTech space
• Working knowledge of Frontend development
• Working knowledge of AWS managed services (ECS, EKS, Kinesis)
• Active Eventbrite user with a passion for live events

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, on-site services, 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 if you like sports, we have our wellness program to pay for your gym expenses.

Ongoing training and career development is an important part of our culture

We offer unlimited access to courses in Udemy, language exchange programs, internal training, Briteling talks, workshops and weekly sessions with our CEO

Work-life balance 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 nearly one million event creators in over 180 countries. Since inception, Eventbrite has been at the center of the experience economy, transforming the way people organize and attend events. 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 300 million tickets distributed to more than 4 million experiences in 2019, Eventbrite is where people all over the world discover new things to do or new ways to do more of what they love.

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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.