
Senior Data Engineer
Live Nation Entertainment
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United 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