Senior Software Development Engineer

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION – Sr Software Development Engineer

Location: Scottsdale, AZ or Remote

Division: Enterprise Engineering

Line Manager: Manager, Software Engineering

Contract Terms: Full-time/Regular

THE TEAM

The 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 cloud

infrastructure.

THE ROLE

Ticketmaster 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-critical

software 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 Production

environment
• Assist team in achieving high degrees of automation using well-established DevOps and Agile

practices.
• Ensure that technical and quality standards are enforced throughout the software development

lifecycle.
• 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 in
o API-driven Development and Systems Design
o Enterprise-level scale and complexity
o 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 practices
o Agile Methodology Implementation
o Code and Systems Reusability
o CI/CD, DevOps
o 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 TICKETMASTER

We 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 team

Integrity - We are committed to the high

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