Software Engineer, Marketing Recommendations

Live Nation Entertainment; Macon (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Concert tickets

Stock reimbursement

Job summary

Live Nation Entertainment in Georgia is seeking a mid-level software engineer to join the Personalization team, focusing on a real-time recommendation platform for millions of fans and artists across Live Nation and Ticketmaster.

You will partner with data scientists and engineers, write clean code, build scalable distributed systems, leverage AWS, and contribute across the full development lifecycle to improve the ticket-purchase experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field required.
• Mid-level engineer with strong knowledge of Python and experience with Java.
• 5+ years of software development using Java/Python or similar languages.
• Experience building highly available distributed systems.
• Familiarity with AWS stack (EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda).
• Experience with containerized applications (e.g., Docker).
• Experience with Kafka and Kafka Streams.
• Data engineering skills (ETL).
• PySpark and PyTorch bonus.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Data Scientists and Engineers to add features, models, and techniques to improve the recommendation platform.
• Write clean, well-designed, testable, and efficient code.
• Contribute to all phases of the application development lifecycle.
• Build out and support infrastructure in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS).
• Maintain and evolve real-time processing systems.
• Identify bottlenecks and propose solutions to issues.
• Ensure system health with automated tests and monitoring.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to create automated processes.
• Integrate with 3rd-party applications and vendors.
• Investigate alternative approaches to existing solutions for continuous improvement.

Skills

Python

Java

Distributed systems

Docker

Kafka

Kafka Streams

ETL

PySpark

PyTorch

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS Stack

Kafka

Kafka Streams

PySpark

PyTorch

Docker

Job description

WHO ARE WE?

Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 550 million tickets sold annually and more than 12,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 40,000 shows and 100+ festivals annually for nearly 4,000

artists in over 40 countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect over 1,000 brands with the 98 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.

Job Summary

WHO ARE WE?

Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 550 million tickets sold annually and more than 12,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 40,000 shows and 100+ festivals annually for nearly 4,000

artists in over 40 countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect over 1,000 brands with the 98 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.

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

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 timelá 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.

Live Nation Entertainment will never request payment or equipment purchases as part of the hiring process. Recruiters will only contact candidates from official Live Nation or affiliated brand email domains.