Principal Engineer

April 6

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Ticketmaster is a leading ticketing platform that facilitates the sale of tickets for concerts, sports events, theater performances, and other live entertainment. The platform offers a user-friendly experience for purchasing tickets, as well as managing events and finding popular shows and games. Ticketmaster serves as the official ticket marketplace for many major sports leagues and artist events, making it a key player in the live entertainment industry.

10,000+ employees

Founded 1976

🛍️ eCommerce

⚽ Sports

📋 Description

• Architect and evolve a globally scalable, fault-tolerant payment platform integrating with providers such as Braintree, PayPal, Adyen, and Chase. • Provide hands-on leadership in technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, and Spring Cloud Gateway. • Champion cloud-native solutions using AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines. • Embed security, resilience, and observability into all parts of the platform architecture. • Oversee the platform’s end-to-end performance, ensuring high availability and robust monitoring. • Design and implement auto-remediation strategies and reduce on-call incidents to critical-only escalations. • Lead a distributed engineering team of full-time staff and contractors, driving best practices in DevOps and continuous delivery. • Collaborate closely with Product, UX, and cross-functional teams to define scope, prioritise work, and deliver features on time. • Mentor team members in architectural principles, TDD, and coding standards. • Align architectural strategy across multiple initiatives with fellow principal engineers. • Participate in PI planning, retrospectives, and continuous improvement cycles. • Facilitate clear documentation, code guidelines, and platform onboarding for new engineers. • Ensure the platform meets operational and compliance standards such as PCI.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven years building production-grade software at scale, preferably in a high-traffic or financial context. • Expertise in Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot (classic/reactive), Spring Batch, and Spring Cloud Gateway. • Strong grasp of concurrency, JVM tuning, advanced OOP, and robust testing (unit, integration, capacity). • Experience with cloud-native systems using AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and microservice design. • Familiarity with frontend technologies including ReactJS, NextJS, Material-UI, and GraphQL is a plus. • Proven delivery of secure, scalable web apps with backend-for-frontend architecture and CDN integration. • Proficiency with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenSearch. • Deep understanding of CI/CD practices, GitLab pipelines, infrastructure as code, and centralized monitoring. • Track record of mentoring and coaching engineers in distributed teams. • Experience in payment platforms or finance technologies is advantageous but not essential.