Software Engineer, Marketing Recommendations

THE TEAM

We are seeking candidates to join our Personalization team. This team is responsible for developing recommendation system that improve experience for millions of fans daily by helping them to navigate through thousands of artists playing in the area. We improve ticket purchase experience for hundreds of millions of live event fans by using real time streaming combined with various AWS technologies. If you are a passionate technologist who can get a lot done while having fun, come join a team of like-minded, skilled professionals where you can learn and share your knowledge!

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO

Work with Data Scientists and Engineers to introduce new features, new models, and new techniques to improve the Live Nation and Ticketmaster recommendation platform

Write clean, well-designed, testable, and efficient code

Contribute to all phases of the application development life cycle

Build out and support all the necessary infrastructure in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS)

Maintain and evolve existing real-time processing systems

Identify bottlenecks and bugs as well as propose solutions to identified problems

Ensure overall system health through automated testing and monitoring

Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to provide efficient automated processes

Integrate with 3rd-party applications and vendors

Support continuous improvement by investigating alternative approaches to existing solutions

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field

Mid-level engineer with strong knowledge of Python

5+ years of experience developing software using Java/Python or similar high-level language

Experience in development of highly available and reliable distributed systems

Familiarity with AWS stack (EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Lambda)

Experience working with containerized applications

Experience with Kafka and Kafka Streams

Data Engineering skills (ETL)

PySpark and PyTorch or similar a bonus

Effective visual and verbal communication skills

BENEFITS & PERKS

Our motto is ‘Taking Care of Our Own’ through 6 pillars of benefits:

HEALTH: Medical, vision, dental and mental health benefits for you and your family, with access to a health care concierge, and Flexible or Health Savings Accounts (FSA or HSA)

YOURSELF: Free concert tickets, generous paid time off including paid holidays, sick time, and personal days

WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, stock reimbursement program

FAMILY: New parent programs including caregiver leave and baby bonuses, plus fertility, adoption, foster, or surrogacy support

CAREER: Career and skill development programs with School of Live, tuition reimbursement, and student loan repayment

OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding match

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

We aspire to build teams that reflect and support the fans and artists we serve. Every day we aim to promote environments where everyone can be themselves, contribute fully, and thrive within our company and at our events. 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.

Live Nation 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, intersectionality, 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, Live Nation 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, Live Nation 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. Live Nation will also provide reasonable religious accommodations on a case-by-case basis.

HIRING PRACTICES
The 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.

Live Nation recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Live Nation may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.

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