Principal Software Engineer

🕒 July 9

🌵 Arizona, Florida – Remote

🌵 Arizona – Remote 🐊 Florida – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

👻 Ghost score 12%

What it means: how likely this posting is sitting open without active hiring.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.How we score it: age, reposts, open roles vs team size, how fast jobs close, and whether pay is listed.Fine print: an estimate from public data, not a judgment of the company. Real jobs can score high, so treat it as a hint, not a fact.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New 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

Live Nation Entertainment

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

10,000+ employees

Founded 1996

📱 Media

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2023-01

Media • Entertainment

Live Nation Entertainment is the global leader in live entertainment, powering unforgettable experiences around the world. Artist-powered and fan-driven, Live Nation works with musicians to bring their creativity to life on stages across the globe. As the top producer of concerts, ticket seller, and brand connector to music, Live Nation's platform leads the market in these three core industries. Their mission extends beyond entertainment, aiming to uplift, inspire, and create memories through the power of live music.

📋 Description

• Maintain and strategically modernize high-throughput payment processing systems handling real financial transactions in real time • Drive platform migration work, including migrating a core Windows C++ authorization gateway to Linux via Clang and Bazel • Develop robust payment integrations with third-party gateways (Chase Paymentech, Barclays, HSBC, AMEX, Adyen, Braintree, Klarna, Shift4, and others) • Decompose legacy IPC frameworks into gRPC services, enabling payment components to be reused across the broader payments ecosystem — this is the bridge from maintenance into systems design • Implement security-critical features involving encryption, PCI compliance, and sensitive payment data handling • Optimize performance of transaction processing pipelines where latency directly affects whether a customer completes a purchase • Incrementally steer legacy codebases toward modern C++ practices (RAII, ownership semantics, safe string handling) without breaking the payment flows that depend on them • Design and implement comprehensive testing including unit tests, integration tests, and fuzz testing for security-critical components • Debug and resolve production issues in systems with complex interdependencies and real operational takes • Collaborate with payment operations teams to onboard new payment methods and gateway providers • Ensure compliance with PCI-DSS and other financial industry standards • Participate in on-call rotation for production payment system support

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional C++ development experience in production environments • Modern C++ fluency • Strong understanding of systems programming, including memory management, concurrency, and performance optimization • Ability to reason about undefined behavior, and its practical consequences across platforms • Systematic debugging methodology • Toolchain understanding and cross-compilation concerns • Proficiency with build systems — Bazel experience highly valued; • Experience working with legacy codebases older than 10 years — ability to understand, respect, and incrementally modernize existing systems • Experience with or strong interest in payment processing or financial transaction systems • Deep knowledge of security best practices • Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude, Codex) with mature judgment — uses AI as an accelerator that requires human verification, especially in codebases with undefined behavior where AI-generated code can appear correct and still be wrong • Understanding of HTTP/HTTPS protocols and RESTful API design • Experience with Linux/Unix environments • Rust experience or genuine interest in learning it • gRPC experience or familiarity with service decomposition from monolithic architectures • Payment gateway integration experience (Chase Paymentech, Braintree, Adyen, or similar) • PCI-DSS compliance knowledge and implementation experience • Experience with platform migrations (e.g., Windows to Linux, MSVC to Clang) • Bazel build system expertise • Performance profiling experience • Experience with shared memory, IPC frameworks, or low-level concurrency primitives • Kafka or other event streaming platforms experience • OpenSSL/cryptographic libraries hands-on experience • Familiarity with AI-powered code review and static analysis tools • Awareness of security considerations when using AI tools with legacy or under-documented systems

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental and mental health benefits for you and your family, with access to a health care concierge, and Flexible or Health Savings Accounts (FSA or HSA) • Free concert tickets, generous paid time off including paid holidays, sick time, and personal days • 401(k) program with company match, stock reimbursement program • New parent programs including caregiver leave, plus fertility, adoption, foster, or surrogacy support • Career and skill development programs with School of Live, tuition reimbursement, and student loan repayment • Volunteer time off, crowdfunding match