Software Engineer II

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

We're a people-focused Engineering organization, the women and men on our team value working together in small teams to solve big problems, supporting an active culture of mentorship and inclusion, and committing themselves to learn new things daily. Pair programming, weekly demos, tech talks, and quarterly 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 web, mobile, API, big data, machine learning, search, physical point of sale, and scanning systems.

THE ROLE

You’ll shape and automate the organization and aggregation of our existing data and gather data from new sources. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering and our product teams to pull the data that informs product decisions. You will own the flow of data from our product to internal data consumers and contribute to long-term plans for optimising analytics and decision-making.

YOU WILL

• Eventbrite’s primary tech stack is Python, React, Django, and MySQL, all running on AWS, and this is the main sandbox we play in. However, because this team interfaces with many other teams, there’s potential for many other pieces of our broader tech stack (Redis, Cassandra, Kafka, ElasticSearch, etc). We are also moving toward a micro-service architecture and using a variety of newer technologies like gRPC.
• You will have the opportunity to integrate with Eventbrite’s core systems and interfaces, which are built with Django on the backend, and React and Redux on the frontend. We are hosted entirely on AWS, with MySQL and PostgreSQL as the standard database technologies.

YOU WILL

• Build self-service test automation frameworks that are reliable, reusable, easy to maintain and extend across multiple locales, devices, features, teams, etc.
• Focus on eliminating manual/regression test execution and improve test efficiency by creating automated solutions
• Enable automated test executions within CI/CD pipelines.
• Support development teams in monitoring, maintaining, refactoring, and continuously improving existing automated tests.
• Develop tools and processes for managing test environments.Develop tools and processes for creating and managing test data.
• Collaborate with development teams to architect robust test infrastructure that enable them to conduct efficient automated testing across the testing pyramid.
• Perform gap analysis and continuously refine the test framework to enable earlier defect detection in the development lifecycle.
• Review reported bugs and incidents postmortems to identify test infrastructure gaps which prevented the detection of the issues.

THE SKILLSET

• 3 - 5 years of experience building software in at least one popular programming language - such as Python, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, etc.
• Experience with automated testing across the testing pyramid (unit, integration, end-to-end).
• Experience with static code analysis tools (SonarQube, CodeClimate,...).
• Experience with CI/CD and Docker. Experience using logging and debugging tools like Cloudwatch, Sentry, and Datadog.Experience with cloud services in AWS.
• You have a holistic approach to quality.
• You have a passion for delivering well tested and maintainable code.
• You are a results-driven self-starter with great communication and collaboration skills.
• You enjoy teaching and mentoring colleagues.

BONUS POINTS FOR

• Experience designing automation tests tools or frameworks for enterprise software.
• You have experience with microservices and/or Service Oriented Architecture.
• Experience testing e-commerce or marketplace software products.
• Experience performing performance testing.