Principal Software Engineer, Live Nation
MIS
Entertainment events promoter and producer
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Entertainment events promoter and producer
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
Live Nation's mission is to help live music fans more easily and quickly find concert tickets and information about their favourite artists and venues.
Role
Who you are
- Programming languages such as Go, Rust, or Python
- Experience with software development, including coding, software design patterns, and code reviews
- Familiarity with DevOps tools such as GitLab, CI/CD tooling, Monitoring and Alerting, and SRE practices
- Understanding of security protocols, compliance standards, and cloud and on-prem datacenter environments
- Experience with automation and IaC solutions such as Ansible, Terraform, or CloudFormation
- Knowledge of containerization using Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with Agile methodologies
- Extremely knowledgeable in software development and engineering principles
- Capable and comfortable working on highly strategic, complex, and high-risk undertakings
- Autonomous and proactive, with a strong ability to navigate complex inter-team dynamics
- Passionate and self-starting, focused on iterative delivery and data-driven decision-making
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex issues and propose valuable solutions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of facilitating cross-team collaboration
- Comfortable working in cross-functional and multidisciplinary teams
- Excited about taking on challenging technical problems and devising creative solutions
- Deeply concerned with the security and compliance implications of your services and solutions
What the job involves
- The Managed Infrastructure Services (MIS) segment is responsible for running infrastructure services efficiently and effectively
- The Software Development for MIS team is a new function within MIS, focused on creating software, automation, and tooling to fill gaps where open-source and vendor solutions do not satisfy the need
- This team will work closely with other teams within MIS, including Foundational Services, as well as the Software Security Engineering team and Infrastructure Security Engineering team, to ensure that security needs are met and best practices are followed
- As a Principal Software Engineer for MIS, you will report directly to the Senior Director of Managed Infrastructure Services
- Your role is to lead the development of software solutions that enable the efficient and secure operation of infrastructure services
- You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust software solutions that meet business logic requirements and address emerging security threats
- This includes working with various stakeholders to ensure seamless integration of software solutions with existing infrastructure services
- Tactical Work (20%): Implementation of planned project work, as well as support of operational tickets from internal customers
- This includes hands-on coding, debugging, and deploying fixes when necessary
- Solutions Architecture (30%): Design architectures that enable seamless integration of software solutions with infrastructure services
- This involves creating documentation, diagrams, and proof-of-concepts
- Strategic Work (50%): Participate in planning sessions, roadmap discussions, and architecture reviews, contributing valuable insights to set the direction for future technology implementations
- Develop software solutions to automate business logic requirements and address emerging security threats
- Collaborate with the Software Security Engineering team and Infrastructure Security Engineering team to ensure that security needs are met and best practices are followed
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior team members
- Write tools to automate routine and complex tasks and troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues
- Participate in on-call and potentially some after-hours support as required
- Exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
- Proactively identify and address stability, capacity, and performance concerns
- Implement automation & IaC solutions
- Complete assigned project-related work from Jira tickets following Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology
- Check in code for infrastructure build, automation, & tests to version control repository (GitLab)
- Support PCI / security compliance requirements (upgrades, defect management, etc.)
- Regularly work with Jira, GitLab, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk
- Liaise with other teams (Foundational Services, Networking, Data Center Ops, Security, etc.) as required
Our take
Live Nation is the world's leading live entertainment company, sitting at the top of the market in live events and ticketing. Formed in 2009, it is a major international company, with key business segments made up of concerts, ticketing, and sponsorship and advertising.
Despite its dominant position in the market, the company saw an 84% drop in revenue during 2020 and the closure of live events. Since then, however, demand has been stronger than ever for their ticket sales. This is a reflection that live events remain a clear priority for consumers and has been further reflected in Live Nation's acquisitions of companies - like Goodlive - that complement and bolster Live Nation's portfolio.
In addition to live events, a key area to watch for Live Nation will be the rise of online concert streaming, like that undertaken by competitors such as Driift. Major festivals such as Glastonbury have trialled online concerts with mixed reviews. If it proves successful, this could be a major new section of the entertainment market and a big potential part of Live Nation's future ventures.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Live for artists - Artists are the heart of what we do and we have deep reverence and respect for their creativity. We believe live music is vital to art and culture which is why in 2019, we paid artists more than $6 billion, making Live Nation by far the largest financial supporter of musicians. Beyond global touring deals and festival performances, our Artist Nation group offers services such as management, business marketing and consulting to artists across all genres
- Live for decentralisation - We don’t believe in bureaucracy and we don’t mandate synergy. We keep our corporate teams small, because we trust that our decentralized divisions know how to make the best decisions for their businesses in real time
- Live for ideas - Part of working in a creative industry is imagining what could be and exploring the possibilities. We encourage everyone at Live Nation to dream big and email our CEO with ideas to move our business forward
- Live for entrepreneurship - Employees who thrive here are self-starters who are experts at what they do. While we give a tremendous amount of independence to our employees, we are also precise and exacting about performance. There is no hiding behind process here. You are evaluated on your results and concrete contributions to our business
- Live for focus - We have a long “To Do” list but an even longer “Not To Do” list. As the demand for live events continues to grow across the globe, we have to stay focused on our core mission of connecting artists with their fans for those magical hours of live music
- Live for talent - We believe talent comes from any place or background. This is not a place for elitists. We hire people for who they are – hard workers who deliver results and are passionate about what they do
Company HQ
Barbican, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Michael Rapino
(President and CEO, not founder)They worked for 10 years in various marketing and entertainment capacities at Labatt’s Breweries of Canada. They held several roles at Clear Channel Communications, including President and CEO of Global Music. They were named CEO and President of Live Nation in 2005.
People progressing
Joined as a Financial Accounting Manager in 2017, promoted to Director and then VP of Financial Accounting.
Joined as Executive VP Marketing in 2012, promoted to Senior VP & Head of Marketing after 2 years.
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