Senior Data Engineer II

Job Summary:

WHO ARE WE?

Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment and eCommerce company, comprised of four market leaders: Ticketmaster.com, Live Nation Concerts, Front Line Management Group and Live Nation Network.  Ticketmaster.com is the global event ticketing leader and one of the world’s top five eCommerce sites, with over 26 million monthly unique visitors.  Live Nation Concerts produces over 20,000 shows annually for more than 2,000 artists globally.  Front Line is the world’s top artist management company, representing over 250 artists.  These businesses power Live Nation Network, the leading provider of entertainment marketing solutions, enabling over 800 advertisers to tap into the 200 million consumers Live Nation delivers annually through its live event and digital platforms. For additional information, visit www.livenation.com/investors.

WHO ARE YOU?

Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on! 

THE TEAM

The fan experience is constantly evolving. People don’t go to concerts just to hear their favorite artists play their favorite songs. They go to fully immerse themselves in a truly unique “moment in time” experience; one that will never be repeated again. At Ticketmaster and Live Nation, we are charged with helping create that experience, making it memorable to each and every fan in its own unique way. We do this, first and foremost, by making every effort to understand our fans. Because once we understand our fans, we can help personalize their experiences. As the Data Services team, it is our mission to help provide the best fan experience possible by getting to know who our fans are and how they go about their Ticketmaster and Live Nation journey, always on the lookout for ways to improve it.

THE ROLE

As a Senior Data Engineer within this Data Services team, you will be putting your Databricks knowledge and experience to work as you collaborate with teams of Data Engineers, Infrastructure and Product Managers to build and maintain the new data infrastructure platform for all of Live Nation and Ticketmaster. Monitoring, logging, alerting , automating and metric collection to maintain the integrity of our systems will be critical to our success. The support you provide for both analytical and operational functions will aim to create the best possible experience for every one of our fans.

If you meet this description and are interested in working with others who share the same passion in a collaborative, ego-free environment, please apply today!

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO

• Setting up and maintaining Databricks in AWS cloud
• Automate and manage provisioning needs, such as Databricks Cluster Policies, Unity Catalog, Secrets Management, Role Based Access Control model and permissions
• Monitoring data pipelines for performance and errors.
• Tune Databricks for performance and cost utilization optimization
• Administering security access to Databricks system
• Troubleshooting user and platform related issues
• Spark tuning and addressing performance issues
• Engaging Databricks vendor support as needed
• Maintaining Infrastructure as code
• Support CICD processes including GITLAB
• Define standards and practices for data retention, backups, and business continuity use cases

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of experience with AWS, including common services like S3, EC2, Airflow and Cloudwatch
• 3+ yrs of hands on experience on Databricks platform administration and Unity Catalog
• Experience maintaining infrastructure as code and IT automation tools (Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes etc)
• Strong experience with Python
• Experience with integrating other platforms like Snowflake, MySQL with Databricks
• A proven track record of administration, engineering, and operationalizing Databricks platform in a production mode at scale for Data Engineering, Data Science or MLOps use cases
• Strong communication skills to keep stakeholders and clients informed and provide excellent quality of service
• Experience with application monitoring technologies (e.g. Prometheus and Grafana)
• Strong aptitude for prototyping and learning new technologies

BENEFITS & PERKS

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

• HEALTH: Medical, Vision and Dental benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
• YOURSELF: Generous paid time off policy including paid holidays, sick time and paid days off for your birthday, Free concert tickets
• WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, Stock Program
• FAMILY: New parent programs & support including caregiver leave and childcare cash, infertility support
• CAREER: Tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment internal growth and development programs & trainings
• OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding network

Live Nation’s policy regarding vaccinations and masking will evolve based upon updated regulations and factors related to COVID-19. Currently, we strongly encourage employees to be fully vaccinated or have received a negative COVID test within [24] hours of entering an office.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

We 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.

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, 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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The expected compensation for this position in California is:

**Please note that the compensation information provided is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to the California Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements Law. It is estimated based on what a successful California applicant might be paid. It assumes that the successful candidate will be in California or perform the position from California. Similar positions located outside of California 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 California Law, a potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.