Principal Payments Platform Engineer (Remote)

Live Nation Worldwide, Inc.; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free concert tickets

Paid time off

401(k) with match

Tuition reimbursement

Student loan repayment

Job summary

Ticketmaster is seeking a Principal Software Engineer, Payments in North America with deep C++ expertise to modernize and scale our payment systems. You will contribute to real-time processing, security, and cross‑gateway integrations while shaping future architecture.

The ideal candidate thrives on complex legacy systems, evolving them with gRPC, Bazel, and potential Rust adoption, and supports on‑call production reliability in a global environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional C++ development experience in production environments.
• Modern C++ fluency and strong systems programming knowledge.
• Experience with or interest in payment processing or financial transaction systems.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and modernize high-throughput payment processing systems.
• Migrate a core Windows C++ gateway to Linux via Bazel and Clang.
• Develop robust payment integrations with third-party gateways.
• Decompose legacy IPC frameworks into gRPC services.
• Implement security features involving encryption and PCI compliance.
• Optimize latency in transaction processing pipelines.
• Steer legacy code toward modern C++ practices without disrupting payments.
• Collaborate with payment operations to onboard new methods and gateways.

Skills

C++ expertise

Systems programming

Performance optimization

Linux/Unix

gRPC

Rust interest

Tools

Bazel

OpenSSL

Clang

Job description

Ticketmaster is seeking a Principal Software Engineer, Payments in North America with deep C++ expertise to modernize and scale our payment systems. You will contribute to real-time processing, security, and cross‑gateway integrations while shaping future architecture.

The ideal candidate thrives on complex legacy systems, evolving them with gRPC, Bazel, and potential Rust adoption, and supports on‑call production reliability in a global environment.