Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Data

THE CHALLENGE

Eventbrite has the world’s largest data repository of live events, powering millions of events and hundreds of millions of ticket transactions each year in 170+ countries. Our Data Engineering team helps wrangle data to drive business growth for our event creators, attendees, and the Eventbrite leadership. As we position Eventbrite for success over the next few years, we are revamping our data infrastructure to better serve customer, business and product needs. We are looking for an experienced technical manager who can inspire and lead a team of talented data engineers in designing and building our next-generation data infrastructure.  

THE TEAM

Our data engineering team manages critical infrastructure, collaborating with cross functional stakeholders to make data the lifeblood of our business and customers. Our product spans the web, mobile, physical point of sale, and scanning systems, and generates structured and unstructured data that forms a treasure trove of insights. We conquer significant problems by putting our heads together, learning, supporting and mentoring each other to reach greater heights as a team.

YOU WILL

• Lead, coach, and grow Eventbrite’s talented Data Engineering team, rolling up your sleeves to be a force multiplier.
• Partner across the company to accelerate and promote data-driven decisions
• Enable timely and actionable insights for internal and external customers
• Define and meet data SLAs for key data consumers that span technical and non-technical functions. 
• Evaluate and manage vendors, mediating tradeoffs across a diverse set of data tools and technologies for data ingestion, storage, compute, and orchestration across diverse structured and unstructured datasets. 
• Contribute to design and implementation of next-gen data infrastructure and the broader tech stack
• Partner with security and compliance teams to protect our systems and data

THE SKILL SET

• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
• 10+ years of experience in Software/Data engineering
• 5+ years of experience managing, hiring, retaining and growing technical talent 
• Track record aligning technical and non-technical stakeholders such as product managers, data scientists, engineers, financial analysts, IT and legal.
• Built and/or managed large scale complex distributed systems, ideally handling batch, streaming, and transaction processing workloads.
• Experience with data warehouse technical architectures, EDW concepts, data modeling, query optimization and workload management is preferred.
• Experience with Amazon cloud technologies including Aurora, RedShift, S3, Elastic MapReduce, and Kinesis, data processing systems such as Spark/SQL/Hive etc., and Python/Django-based microservices is a plus.

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 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.