Principal Software Engineer (Remote, United Kingdom)
Live Nation Entertainment3 days ago
Remote, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and develop new systems and enhancements for high-traffic, large-scale software applications and data flow processes.
- Own and evolve technical strategy, architectural direction, shared engineering standards, patterns, and guardrails across three teams.
- Review and modernize infrastructure and design systems for scalability, reliability, security, high availability, low latency, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency.
- Build monitoring, alerting, application performance, automated build, and deployment systems.
- Identify and resolve systemic technical risks and dependencies spanning multiple products or teams.
- Design and build a comprehensive QA platform or solution with the teams.
- Evaluate tools and technologies, lead solution design discussions, and influence technology investments with senior stakeholders.
- Act as a principal technical advisor on decisions with significant or long-term implications.
- Guide, mentor, and support team members; review code for quality, correctness, and efficiency.
- Coordinate work-unit delivery, participate in stand-ups, escalate blockers, communicate timelines, and support production systems and on-call activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Proficiency in one or more of Java, TypeScript, and Node.js, with willingness to learn the others.
- At least 5 years of experience building high-traffic web applications and deploying them to production with a focus on quality and maintainability.
- Experience with cloud-based platforms, preferably AWS.
- Experience supporting live applications, debugging issues, reading logs, and using application dashboards such as Grafana and AWS CloudWatch.
- Experience writing SQL queries and working with SQL databases such as MySQL and NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and deployment tools including Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm.
- Experience with code and build tools including GitLab, CI/CD, Jenkins, and Sonar.
- Experience working in Agile teams, handling production issues, and providing on-call support.
- Strong communication, documentation, time-management, estimation, cross-team collaboration, stakeholder-management, and mentoring skills.
- Experience working across multiple teams and on cross-team projects.
- Preferred qualifications include entertainment or online ticketing experience, familiarity with diverse cultural and regulatory environments, and understanding of personal AI usage such as Claude in the software development lifecycle.
Benefits
- Permanent, full-time position at 40 hours per week.
- Remote role within the United Kingdom, with travel to London for meetings when required.
- Inclusive workplace with support for professional development, personal aspirations, and work-life balance.
- Opportunity to work at Ticketmaster and Live Nation Entertainment on products used by millions of live-event fans.
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About Live Nation Entertainment
Live Nation Entertainment promotes concerts and festivals, manages artists, operates venues, and sells tickets worldwide through Ticketmaster for fans, artists, venues, and teams. Its revenue comes from ticketing fees, concert promotion and venue operations, and brand sponsorships. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, the public company trades on the NYSE and operates divisions including Ticketmaster, Concerts, Media & Sponsorship, and Artist Nation.