Principal Software Engineer, Platform Modernization

🔥 6 minutes ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

🇬🇧 UK Skilled Worker Visa Sponsor

This company has sponsored UK Skilled Worker visas in the past.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Receive Emails For Remote Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

Ticketmaster

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

10,000+ employees

Founded 1976

🛍️ eCommerce

⚽ Sports

eCommerce • Entertainment • Sports

Ticketmaster is a leading ticketing platform that facilitates the sale of tickets for concerts, sports events, theater performances, and other live entertainment. The platform offers a user-friendly experience for purchasing tickets, as well as managing events and finding popular shows and games. Ticketmaster serves as the official ticket marketplace for many major sports leagues and artist events, making it a key player in the live entertainment industry.

📋 Description

• Design and implement backend systems that abstract infrastructure concerns and enable self-service capabilities • Own the development and support of internal tools, APIs, and automation frameworks used by infrastructure and application teams • Drive enhancements to CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, focusing on security, repeatability, and observability. • Define backend architectures and patterns that scale across infrastructure domains • Create design documents, system diagrams, and proof-of-concepts that guide development and integration • Collaborate with senior stakeholders to align platform modernization initiatives with long-term goals • Guide technology direction and best practices across teams • Mentor engineers and foster a culture of strong backend engineering, maintainability, and continuous improvement

🎯 Requirements

• Proven years of experience as a backend or platform software engineer (or equivalent experience) • Strong programming proficiency in Go or Python • You write maintainable, testable, and observable code • Awareness of additional systems languages (e.g., Rust) is a plus • Proven experience designing internal APIs, automation frameworks, or infrastructure control planes • Experience with gRPC, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka) for inter-service communication • Familiarity with Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or Ansible • Understanding of SRE principles and a metrics-driven approach to software reliability and observability (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) • Experience working in Agile, remote, cross-functional environments • Eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Significant autonomy within an Agile (SAFe) environment • Routine on-call for critical services • Full ownership to build reliability and availability into the systems