Live Nation Entertainment

Senior Data Engineer

Live Nation Entertainment

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $152,000 - $190,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Requirements

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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
ETLELTPythonSQLPySparkDatabricksdata modelingCI/CDdata governancedata engineering
Soft skills
communicationcross-functional collaborationmentoringbest practices promotioncontinuous improvement