Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

Live Nation Entertainment is the world's leading live entertainment and eCommerce company, comprised of four market leaders: Ticketmaster.com, Live Nation Concerts, Front Line Management Group and Live Nation Network. Ticketmaster.com is the global event ticketing leader and one of the world's top five eCommerce sites, with over 26 million monthly unique visitors. Live Nation Concerts produces over 20,000 shows annually for more than 2,000 artists globally. Front Line is the world's top artist management company, representing over 250 artists. These businesses power Live Nation Network, the leading provider of entertainment marketing solutions, enabling over 800 advertisers to tap into the 200 million consumers Live Nation delivers annually through its live event and digital platforms.

Core Data Services team is at the center of Data and Analytics initiatives. We are building a modern data platform to support enterprise data needs. Our mission and yours too should you choose to join us, is to empower and enable our data community of data engineers, data scientists, analysts, product teams and decision makers to create value.

We are building a highly functional, performant modern enterprise Data Lake while supporting our current data platforms. We focus on creating trusted, usable data assets in an environment that enables LNE teams to drive value for fans and our business. This is what defines us as a Core Data Services Team.

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer with strong hands-on experience building scalable data pipelines, optimizing performance, and enabling AI use cases. This role will design and implement large-scale data systems on Databricks and SQL Server, while also adopting AI tools and automation frameworks that accelerate development velocity and operational excellence.

You will help modernize our data ecosystem, contribute to writing efficient pipelines, and leverage AI technologies to improve productivity, reduce manual work, and enhance pipeline reliability.

Core Data Engineering Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks, PySpark, Python, and SQL.
• Optimize data workflows and SQL/Spark queries for performance, cost efficiency, and reliability.
• Contribute to the design of our enterprise Data Lake and curated data assets.
• Build robust ingestion frameworks, transformation logic, and reusable data engineering components.
• Support data migrations and modernization efforts from legacy systems to cloud-based platforms.

AI-Augmented Productivity & Automation

• Use AI coding copilots (Databricks Assistant, GitHub Copilot, SQL copilots) to accelerate development, code review, test creation, and documentation.
• Automate repetitive tasks (schema evolution, config generation, logging templates, test data creation) with generative AI tools.
• Leverage AI to auto-detect pipeline anomalies, data drift, quality issues, and performance bottlenecks.
• Incorporate AI-assisted query optimization tools to improve Spark & SQL performance.
• Ability to learn and utilize LLM-powered tools to generate, refactor, and explain complex SQL, PySpark logic, and pipeline configurations.

Collaboration & Delivery

• Work cross-functionally with Product, data consumers to deliver high-quality data solutions.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies & contribute to sprint planning & technical design discussions.
• Mentor junior data engineers, promote best practices in AI-assisted data engineering.
• Ensure strong documentation, standards adoption, & continuous improvement across the team.

What This Person Will Bring:

• 5–7+ years of hands-on data engineering experience.
• Advanced proficiency in Python, SQL, PySpark, and ETL/ELT frameworks.
• Strong experience with Databricks and distributed data processing.
• Demonstrated ability to optimize SQL/Spark workloads for performance and cost.
• Experience using AI development tools such as: GitHub Copilot, Databricks Assistant, SQL/IDE AI copilots, AI-based data quality or monitoring tools
• Solid understanding of data modeling, governance, and CI/CD for data pipelines.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a cross-functional environment.
• Experience working in Agile environments with tools like Jira and Confluence.

Benefits & Perks

• Health: Medical, Vision and Dental benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
• Yourself: Generous paid time off policy including paid holidays, sick time and paid days off for your birthday, Free concert tickets
• Wealth: 401(k) program with company match, Stock Program
• Family: New parent programs & support including caregiver leave and childcare cash, infertility support
• Career: Tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment internal growth and development programs & trainings
• Others: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding network

Equal Employment Opportunity

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, 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 timely 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.

The expected compensation for this position is:

$152,000.00 USD - $190,000.00 USD

** Pay is based on a number of factors including market location, qualifications, skills, and experience.

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.