Senior NoSQL Database Engineer, Live Nation
Entertainment events promoter and producer
Open for applications
Entertainment events promoter and producer
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Live Nation's mission is to help live music fans more easily and quickly find concert tickets and information about their favourite artists and venues.
Role
Who you are
- Experience working with the infrastructure of open-source databases (e.g., Apache Cassandra/DSE, ScyllaDB, MongoDB, DynamoDB)
- Strong conceptual understanding of high availability and failover design
- Database and OS performance tuning and performance testing experience
- Strong troubleshooting skills for resolving issues independently
- Experience with cloud solutions (e.g., AWS EC2, AMI, EBS, Route53, CloudWatch, DynamoDB)
- Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (e.g., Ansible, SaltStack, Terraform, Puppet, Chef)
- Experience designing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure code deployment
- Demonstrable usage experience of Git and designing version control process methodologies
- Knowledge of database and OS observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
- Strong fundamentals of Linux/Unix system knowledge
- Knowledge of Kubernetes/Kafka is a plus
- Proven experience with programming languages in a software engineering or data engineering role (e.g., Python, Django)
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- Experience working in a distributed remote environment
- Natural drive to learn new technologies, participate in PoCs, and provide the best datastore solutions to meet business requirements
- High inclination to document often and share knowledge with the team
- Engineering mindset with motivation to automate repetitive manual tasks
- Understanding and willingness to adopt SDLC and Agile best practices
- Proficient in Linux and Unix shell environments
- Ability to work independently with a strong level of self-motivation
What the job involves
- As a Senior NoSQL Database Engineer on the Cassandra Team, you will be working on some of the latest database technology and will have an excellent opportunity to grow your career with a team with a great culture
- You will be responsible for the infrastructure of open-source databases and will work on cloud solutions, infrastructure automation, and configuration management
- This role will involve designing CI/CD pipelines, utilizing Git for version control, and working with Linux/Unix systems
- Your contributions will help in achieving the objectives of the team and the company by supporting the migration to AWS and maintaining the high availability and performance of our databases
- Continuously improving the reliability and performance of existing open-source database platforms, both cloud and on-prem solutions
- Collaborate with other application engineering teams to deploy Cassandra cluster, schema design and performance tuning to meet business requirements for critical products in Ticketmaster.. Provide sufficient support for scaling, upgrade and other operation tasks
- Plan the growth and manage the capacity and the life-cycle of the current production open-source database platforms
- Strategize on building proactive monitoring and alerting to pre-empt outages
- Support OnCall for GMT and IST time zone
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Live Nation is the world's leading live entertainment company, sitting at the top of the market in live events and ticketing. Formed in 2009, it is a major international company, with key business segments made up of concerts, ticketing, and sponsorship and advertising.
Despite its dominant position in the market, the company saw an 84% drop in revenue during 2020 and the closure of live events. Since then, however, demand has been stronger than ever for their ticket sales. This is a reflection that live events remain a clear priority for consumers and has been further reflected in Live Nation's acquisitions of companies - like Goodlive - that complement and bolster Live Nation's portfolio.
In addition to live events, a key area to watch for Live Nation will be the rise of online concert streaming, like that undertaken by competitors such as Driift. Major festivals such as Glastonbury have trialled online concerts with mixed reviews. If it proves successful, this could be a major new section of the entertainment market and a big potential part of Live Nation's future ventures.
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Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Live for artists - Artists are the heart of what we do and we have deep reverence and respect for their creativity. We believe live music is vital to art and culture which is why in 2019, we paid artists more than $6 billion, making Live Nation by far the largest financial supporter of musicians. Beyond global touring deals and festival performances, our Artist Nation group offers services such as management, business marketing and consulting to artists across all genres
- Live for decentralisation - We don’t believe in bureaucracy and we don’t mandate synergy. We keep our corporate teams small, because we trust that our decentralized divisions know how to make the best decisions for their businesses in real time
- Live for ideas - Part of working in a creative industry is imagining what could be and exploring the possibilities. We encourage everyone at Live Nation to dream big and email our CEO with ideas to move our business forward
- Live for entrepreneurship - Employees who thrive here are self-starters who are experts at what they do. While we give a tremendous amount of independence to our employees, we are also precise and exacting about performance. There is no hiding behind process here. You are evaluated on your results and concrete contributions to our business
- Live for focus - We have a long “To Do” list but an even longer “Not To Do” list. As the demand for live events continues to grow across the globe, we have to stay focused on our core mission of connecting artists with their fans for those magical hours of live music
- Live for talent - We believe talent comes from any place or background. This is not a place for elitists. We hire people for who they are – hard workers who deliver results and are passionate about what they do
Company HQ
Barbican, London, UK
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Founders
Michael Rapino
(President and CEO, not founder)They worked for 10 years in various marketing and entertainment capacities at Labatt’s Breweries of Canada. They held several roles at Clear Channel Communications, including President and CEO of Global Music. They were named CEO and President of Live Nation in 2005.
People progressing
Joined as a Financial Accounting Manager in 2017, promoted to Director and then VP of Financial Accounting.
Joined as Executive VP Marketing in 2012, promoted to Senior VP & Head of Marketing after 2 years.
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