Principal Software Developer, Live Nation
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
- Solid experience in software engineering with high quality standards and expertise in large-scale production software deployment
- Degree in computer science or equivalent experience
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies and paradigms
- Solid programming skills in Java/Kotlin/JavaScript/TypeScript/Python
- Solid skills in backend engineering, multithreading, thread pools and OOP
- Extensive knowledge in testing strategies
- Extensive knowledge of REST
- Extensive knowledge of Kafka or other distributed messaging systems
- Extensive knowledge of several database products (e.g. MongoDB, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, DynamoDB, MySQL)
- Extensive knowledge of writing Springboot microservices
- Extensive knowledge of distributed/service-oriented/microservice and cloud-based architectures
- Deep knowledge of building native cloud applications on AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
- Proven experience in creating application architectures
- Proven experience working in an Agile + DevOps engineering environment
- Extensive knowledge of DevOps/continuous delivery/continuous deployment best practices and guidelines
- Proven experience in building continuous delivery/continuous deployment pipelines
- Experience in coaching engineers and documenting best practices
- Proven experience in supervising the development of microservices that meet autonomy and resilience standards in a domain-oriented environment
- YOU (BEHAVIOURAL SKILLS):
- Autonomous, proactive and with a positive attitude
- Able to function independently and effectively in a corporate environment
- Ability to handle multiple projects in a constantly changing environment
- Excellent communication, documentation and presentation skills and the ability to clearly articulate a solution and influence others
- A consistent track record of exceeding expectations for team success
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Ability to design and collaborate with several teams
What the job involves
- The Principal Engineering on the TM1 team will see you working on critical components such as Enterprise Search (GES) and its content platform
- The latter is essential to Ticketmaster, as it ensures the distribution of event data and other related entities throughout the Ticketmaster ecosystem
- Through your technical leadership, you will contribute to the expansion of the platform by playing a key role in the design and engineering of its software components
- Your expertise will be put to good use in developing innovative solutions to deliver a robust set of systems and strengthen the platform's position as a unified access point for event data from the various ticketing platforms in Ticketmaster's portfolio
- An important part of this role is to anticipate needs and mentor individuals in order to strengthen the team culture with a view to perpetual improvement
- As an engineer at Ticketmaster, you will be responsible for a self-sufficient team focused on quality
- We are looking for people who are passionate, eager to share their knowledge and able to adapt easily to change, with a willingness to take part in a variety of projects across a wide range of technologies
- You will be part of a DevOps and Agile team that is fully responsible for the delivery of new features, from planning, architecture, implementation and validation to delivery and support
- Design and implement robust, reliable, highly available and scalable APIs, with robust monitoring and alerting capabilities
- Co-design the framework by integrating fault tolerance and self-healing mechanisms, while applying scalability principles
- Design, plan and implement innovative approaches to solving complex problems of various kinds
- Evaluate, prototype and compare new solutions
- Prepare and present technical concepts to internal/external audiences
- Lead the technical vision and implement the approaches needed to simplify day-to-day feature development
- Continuous optimization of services at all levels (infrastructure, platform, software) for high availability, reliability and performance
- Interact with product managers and provide the right solutions to implement
- Work closely with management to integrate new functionalities according to the product's strategic plan
- Define technical specifications and technical acceptance criteria to ensure that the engineering team meets business requirements
- Seek to build relationships and partnerships with internal and external team members
- Monitor all critical services, troubleshoot and resolve problems as they arise
- Ensure high quality at all levels (code quality, bug-free deployments, automated testing, etc.)
- Meticulously define and maintain platform SLO/SLAs
- Automated testing ensures high quality
- Participate in on-call rotation to ensure production support
- Ensure the right balance between standardization, innovation, quality and reduction of technical debt, to rapidly deliver business value
- Coaching engineers and promoting motivation
- Be responsible for the technical solution
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.
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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
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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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