Engineering Manager- Event Infrastructure

THE CHALLENGE

Eventbrite is the leading global ticketing and event technology platform, powering over five million live experiences and 300 million tickets every year. We empower creators of events of all shapes and sizes – from music festivals, experiential yoga, political rallies to gaming competitions –– by providing them the tools and resources they need to seamlessly plan, promote, and produce live experiences around the world. 

The Creator Acquisition team mission is efficiently acquire new creators for Eventbrite that will be successful and valuable on our platform. We are working on improve our acquisition experience building a unified and unique experience for prospective creators and showcasing our product so creators understand and are excited about our platform

As an Engineering Manager, you will inspire, mentor, and develop the team that builds this experience and make a great impact on our  business.

THE ROLE

As an Engineering Manager at Eventbrite, you will have the opportunity to drive impact through ownership of challenging and impactful parts of our platform. At Eventbrite, we put our Britelings first and cultivate authenticity. You will support the career growth of our engineers, and continue to drive change and improvement within our organization. You will contribute to Eventbrite engineering’s culture of technical excellence through inclusivity and mentorship. You will continuously learn among amazing peers. This is more than an opportunity to join an amazing team, it is a chance to impact Eventbrite’s platform and organization at scale.

THE TEAM

The Event Creation team is focused on helping people create events on our platform. We work closely with Marketing and other Product teams to improve our create experience including building and improving our UX experience and building several key backend services. The team is composed of front-end engineers, backend engineers, a product manager, a designer, and an engineering manager.

The Britelings on our team value working together in small teams to solve big problems, supporting an active culture of mentorship and inclusion, and pushing themselves to learn new things daily. Pair programming, weekly demos, tech talks, and hackathons are at the core of how we’ve built our team and product. We believe in engaging with the community, regularly hosting free events with some of the top technical speakers, and actively contributing to open source software. Our technology spans across technology domains like web, mobile, API, big data, machine learning, and search.

THE SKILL SET

• At least one year experience in engineering leadership and people management
• Strong technical background (3+ years) building web products and ability to contribute to design and architectural discussions
• Demonstrated ability to grow and lead high-functioning, diverse technical teams through coaching, training, and career development aligned with their goals.
• Experience working with a highly collaborative environment, driving a team who ships code to production often
• Develop a sustainable, healthy work environment focused on creative problem solving and innovation
• Experience with fundamental cloud technologies (preferably within AWS) and the DevOps approach to autonomous team ownership of mission critical infrastructure

BONUS POINTS

• Experience or a passion for organizing and attending live experiences.
• Experience leading completely remote and distributed engineering teams, with global cross team collaboration.
• Experience working in an experimental and agile environment.
• Strong Motivation for innovation and creativity.

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 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.