Senior Software Development Engineer

Company: Live Nation
Location: Scottsdale
Posted on: June 25, 2022

Job Description:

Job Summary:JOB DESCRIPTION - Sr Software Development Engineer Location: Scottsdale, AZ or Remote Division: Enterprise EngineeringLine Manager: Manager, Software EngineeringContract Terms: Full-time/Regular THE TEAMThe Core Ticketing Services team builds applications that provide near real-time Offers, Inventory, and Pricing data for live events through streams and stream-powered web. Our products power premier pricing tools, interactive seat maps, e-commerce checkout, fraud prevention, reporting systems, and more. This is a dynamic and growing team working on various aspects including data streams, REST APIs, NoSQL databases, and cloudinfrastructure.THE ROLETicketmaster is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who can thrive in our fast-paced environment. We are seeking candidates to join our Core Ticketing Services Engineering team who are proactive, self-starters, and have a proven track record of working collaboratively across an organization. This team represents the future in many top strategies and is key to the successful execution of organizational initiatives. Our mission is to modernize and develop "Tier One" systems using cutting-edge technologies and architectural design patterns which directly contribute to our fan's ticket amazing buying and event experience.Now is an exciting time to join the team and make a real difference as well as showcase your design and architecture skills as we shape the next generation of Core Ticketing streams & services, integration with various components of the Ticketmaster ecosystem, and overall, build a world-class system.If you are the sort of person that enjoys a fast-paced work environment, is able to quickly pick up cutting-edge technologies and product concepts, and has the desire to experiment with and evaluate new technological paths forward, this is the role for you.RESPONSIBILITIES? Be a hands-on contributor, working with a distributed team of talented engineers to help build our next-generation ticketing systems.? Work on key product initiatives that power our core ticketing platforms, deliver business-criticalsoftware running on AWS and Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure.? Deliver clear, pragmatic solutions with applicability to meet immediate and future business needs.? Deliver durable, thoughtful, high-quality software that will thrive in a high-scale Productionenvironment? Assist team in achieving high degrees of automation using well-established DevOps and Agilepractices.? Ensure that technical and quality standards are enforced throughout the software developmentlifecycle.? Design and Develop API and Streaming data applications built with Java, Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, and more? Build/Test/Deploy with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using Cucumber, Helm, and Terraform.REQUIREMENTS? Desire and technical ability to act like an owner, leader, and "force multiplier" within a defined problem area and the scope of the team. The ability to "Lead by example" by contributing directly to the design, development, and support of your teams' systems/solutions? 3+ Years deep and direct hands-on experience building high-performing data-centric applications. Proven ability to deliver artifacts that set the standard within your organization for engineering excellence, from designs to algorithms to implementations.? Broad exposure and experience ino API-driven Development and Systems Designo Enterprise-level scale and complexityo Fully automated QA (TDD, BDD, Performance, Security, Integration/Compatibility, Regression,and Functional Testing)o Engineering Best-Practices, Engineering workflow optimization and integration,Designing/Developing in a "Cloud-based environment".? Deep understanding of and adherence to rigorous engineering and development processes and "Best. Practices", including:o Extreme Programming practiceso Agile Methodology Implementationo Code and Systems Reusabilityo CI/CD, DevOpso Complete, Thorough, and Effective Automated Quality Assurance.? Proven track record of "winning" by leveraging your team, your partners, or yourself. BEHAVIORAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES --- You take the lead on the design, implementation, and delivery of large-scale or significantly difficult software solutions that have a long-term impact on the product, technology, and architecture.--- You identify and tackle intrinsically hard problems. (e.g., highly complex, ambiguous or undefined, solutions, or having significant business or security risk or potential for significant impact).--- You deliver artifacts that set the standard within your organization for engineering excellence, from designs to algorithms to implementations. Your personal code submissions and reviews of other people's code are instructive and make the overall code corpus better.--- You lead and actively participate in design reviews, aligning teams across your organization towards coherent architectural strategies. You bring clarity to complexity, probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding.--- You are a pragmatic problem solver, applying judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests. You are flexible, adapting your approach to meet the needs of the team, project, and product.--- You actively recruit as well as participate in the hiring/interview process.--- You play a significant role in the career development of others, actively mentoring and educating the larger SDE community on trends, technologies, and best practices.--- You keep abreast of industry trends. You effectively research and benchmark our technology against other competing software in the industry. You understand that many problems are not essentially new.+ Strong verbal communication, ability to clearly communicate ideas, work status, advocate for (or against) a particular approach or design.+ Documentation skills - ability to make the path easier for new team members / new hires / interns by organizing knowledge in Confluence, wiki, or similar.+ Ability to manage self and own time, deliver work on time, evaluate and estimate work+ Ability to work with various teams, including tech and product, incorporate their inputs into the work being done, and manage expectations on issues & enhancements.LIFE AT TICKETMASTERWe are proud to be a part of Live Nation Entertainment, the world's largest live entertainment company. Our vision at Ticketmaster is to connect people around the world to the live events they love. As the world's largest ticket marketplace and the leading global provider of enterprise tools and services for the live entertainment business, we are uniquely positioned to successfully deliver on that vision. We do it all with an intense passion for Live and an inspiring and diverse culture driven by accessible leaders, attentive managers, and enthusiastic teams. If you're passionate about live entertainment like we are, and you want to work at a company dedicated to helping millions of fans experience it, we want to hear from you.Our work is guided by our values:Reliability - We understand that fans and clients rely on us to power their live event experiences, and we rely on each other to make it happen.Teamwork - We believe individual achievement pales in comparison to the level of success that can be achieved by a teamIntegrity - We are committed to the highest moral and ethical standards on behalf of the countless partners and stakeholders we representBelonging - We are committed to building a culture in which all people can be their authentic selves, have an equal voice and opportunities to thriveEQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITYWe are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and homelife. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with. It's talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.Ticketmaster strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act and consistent with other similar and / or applicable laws in other areas.We also afford equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Ticketmaster will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant consistent with its legal obligations to do so, including reasonable accommodations related to pregnancy in accordance with applicable local, state and / or federal law. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Ticketmaster also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations. Applicants are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact a Human Resources Representative to request the opportunity to participate in a timely interactive process. Ticketmaster will also provide reasonable religious accommodations on a case-by-case basis.HIRING PRACTICESThe preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.Ticketmaster recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Ticketmaster may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.CO Hiring Range*: **Please note that the compensation information provided is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act and Equal Pay Transparency Rules. It is estimated based on what a successful Colorado applicant might be paid. It assumes that the successful candidate will be in Colorado or perform the position from Colorado. Similar positions located outside of Colorado will not necessarily receive the same compensation. Live Nation takes into consideration a candidate's education, training, and experience, as well as the position's work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, including seniority and merit systems, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. In compliance with the CO EPEWA, a potential new employee's salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.About UsRecognized three years in a row by Great Place to Work - and named one of People Magazine's top 50 Companies that Care, Live Nation Entertainment is the global leader in live entertainment and ticketing. Our world-class portfolio reaches all aspects of the live event and ticketing industry, from ground-breaking software in Ticketmaster, mix of legendary venues and restaurants in House of Blues, production leaders in Concerts, exceptional brand partnerships in Media & Sponsorship, and unparalleled team of artist managers in Artist Nation supported by diverse professionals in all facets of Corporate operations.We recognize that our most important assets are our employees, the rock stars who keep the live experience going. Generous vacation, healthcare, and retirement benefits are just some of the great perks we offer to support our global workforce of more than 38,000. For any stage in your career, our many unique benefit programs are designed to help you live life to the fullest. We offer student loan repayment to support recent grads, six months of paid caregiver leave to support new parents, perks like Roadie Babies (bring your little ones & a caretaker along with you on work trips) and Music @ Home (stipend to cultivate your little ones' music interest), and tuition reimbursement to fuel your ongoing professional development. Plus, working for the world's largest live event and ticketing company means you'll have access to free concerts, festivals, sports games, and more through our exclusive employee ticket concierge.There is no bigger stage for your career. See what your future looks like at Live Nation Entertainment.

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