Principal Software Engineer – Platform Modernization
| Company | Live Nation Entertainment |
|---|---|
| Location | California, USA, Arizona, USA, Virginia, USA, New York, NY, USA, Massachusetts, USA |
| Salary | $158000 – $199000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Strong experience in software engineering with a focus on automation, large-scale systems, and strategic planning.
- Proven expertise in at least two languages (Go, Rust, Python, or PowerShell).
- Extensive experience with frontend development using TypeScript and React.
- Deep hands-on experience with Cloud-Native technologies, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi).
- Advanced proficiency in setting up CI/CD pipelines using GitLab.
- Expert understanding of SRE principles, automation best practices, and metrics-driven observability.
- A collaborative mindset, excellent communication skills, and a passion for driving efficiency and empowering teams.
- Strong experience with Agile methodologies, specifically within a fully remote, distributed team environment.
- Exceptional ability to synthesize complex technical and organizational challenges into actionable problem statements and solutions.
Responsibilities
- Implement planned project work while supporting complex operational issues from internal customers, focusing on scalability and performance.
- Hands-on coding, debugging, and deploying solutions to address infrastructure challenges.
- Oversee CI/CD pipeline improvements and optimizations using GitLab, ensuring high availability and accelerated software delivery.
- Design scalable architectures that enable seamless integration and consumption of infrastructure services by tech teams, focusing on maintainability and resilience.
- Lead the creation of comprehensive documentation, diagrams, and proof-of-concepts to support infrastructure automation initiatives.
- Architect robust automation solutions using Cloud-Native technologies, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Lead planning sessions, roadmap discussions, and architecture reviews, providing strategic insights that guide future technology implementations.
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders to align automation projects with organizational priorities, influencing key decisions to optimize both software and infrastructure delivery.
- Mentor engineers on best practices, coding standards, and modern automation techniques, fostering a culture of continuous learning.
- Champion an SRE mindset focused on automation, high availability, Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and observability using Prometheus and Grafana.
- Collaborate closely with Infrastructure teams to identify automation opportunities and translate them into software solutions that enable service owner teams to fully own and operate their environments, while providing ongoing support and guidance.
- Focus on building robust, self-service automation solutions with support available for escalations and continuous improvements.
- Share best practices and tools to foster a collaborative learning environment and empower service teams to leverage automation.
- Complete assigned project related work from Jira tickets following Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology.
- Drive initiatives to ensure PCI and security compliance requirements.
- Participate in on-call rotations only for critical escalations, ensuring that service owner teams are empowered to manage day-to-day operations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strategic and forward-thinking, capable of leading highly complex, high-impact initiatives.
- Autonomous, proactive, and comfortable driving strategic change in a dynamic environment.
- Passionate about iterative delivery, focused on achieving measurable outcomes.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze and propose innovative solutions to complex technical issues.
- Strong communication skills, able to influence senior stakeholders and foster cross-team collaboration.
- Highly collaborative and comfortable working within multidisciplinary teams.
- Deeply concerned with security and compliance, with a commitment to delivering secure, compliant services and solutions.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence senior leadership to drive technology adoption and strategic change.