Principal Engineer I – Prepurchase Platform
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Principal Engineer I specializing in building backend services for Ticketmaster's Prepurchase Platform. Writing code, solving problems, and modernizing systems for high-demand ticket sales.
Responsibilities:
- Write code, build systems, and solve hard problems hands-on
- Identify and act on production problems without being prompted
- Build end-to-end, high-availability systems
- Lead platform modernization initiatives
- Design and implement streaming and event-driven solutions
- Collaborate with the Enterprise Architecture team on architectural decisions
- Partner with product, security, and SRE teams to align technical decisions with business priorities
- Drive observability improvements
- Identify and eliminate single points of failure
- Apply AI and machine learning tools to improve developer productivity
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies that improve performance
Requirements:
- Proven ability to reason about distributed systems tradeoffs
- Proven experience writing production code and building high-traffic systems at scale
- Expertise in Java (17+)
- Hands-on experience with a reactive, non-blocking framework (Vert.x, Spring WebFlux, or equivalent)
- Deep experience with stream processing and event-driven architecture - Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, or equivalent
- Proven track record building high-throughput, low-latency systems
- Strong command of gRPC
- Familiarity with Data-Oriented Design (DoD)
- Experience with search-oriented data structures
- Experience with search engines (Elasticsearch, Solr) is a plus
- Strong grasp of microservice design and service mesh
- Hands-on experience with AWS (EKS) and cloud-native operations
- Proficiency with caching strategies
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines
- Experience designing for high availability
- Proficiency with AI/ML tools and techniques
- Familiarity with observability tooling
- Strong understanding of security best practices
- Track record of leading technical initiatives across multiple teams
Benefits:
- Generous vacation
- Healthcare
- Retirement benefits
- Student loan repayment
- Tuition reimbursement
- Six months of paid caregiver leave for new parents
- Access to free live events through employee ticketing program
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