Data Engineer

About TixrTixr's on a mission to transform the ticket buying experience with a modern approach to a legacy business. Born from a fan-focused frame of mind, we empower large-scale events, music venues, and sports properties with modern, innovative solutions to their highly-complex ticketing and e-commerce needs. Our unified commerce platform is built for big, supporting all types of events, from festivals to global arena tours, and an almost limitless suite of commerce offerings beyond admission tickets.

The OpportunityAs our Data Engineer, you will play a crucial role in building and maintaining scalable, reliable, and secure data platforms to support our growing business. You'll work closely with data scientists, analysts, and engineers to design, develop, and optimize data pipelines and infrastructure. You will be joining a passionate team that continually pushes the boundaries of technology.                     
Work-LifeThis role is 100% remote with an optional work environment at our Santa Monica office, located on the 3rd Street Promenade. Most teams run West Coast Hours with lots of autonomy. At this time we are only able to hire US Citizens or active US Green Card holders
Skills & Qualifications 

• Deep knowledge and experience with architectures for modern data infrastructure including data lakes, data warehouses, ETL pipelines, physical and logical data formats, data processing systems, data reliability, security, governance, and performance 

• Work to improve and migrate existing code to improve performance, making deliberate and thoughtful tradeoffs where necessary. 

• Extensive knowledge of different kinds of data stores (row-oriented, columnar, key/value, document, graph, etc.) and their use cases and tradeoffs 

• Proficiency with various big data technologies including BigQuery, Redshift, Parquet, Spark, AWS Glue, Expertise in Java (Hibernate) 

• Be independently responsible for the entire lifecycle of projects and systems, including design, development, and deployment 

• High standards and expectations for software development, excellent written and verbal communication skills 

• Strive to write elegant and maintainable code; comfortable picking up new technologies. 

• You break down complex projects into simple systems that can be built and maintained 

  by less experienced engineers 

• You are proficient in working with distributed systems and have experience with different distributed processing frameworks that can handle data in batch and real-time 

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ Years experience as a Software Engineer (Java preferred) with a focus on data                             
• 5+ Years experience working with distributed ingestion, processing, storage, and access of big data (bonus points for experience with AI/ML)                             
• 5+ Years experience with MySQL, Couchbase, Kafka, SageMaker                             
• 7+ Years experience leveraging tools and infrastructure provided by GCP and AWS                             

The Perks

• Salary Range $130,000 - $180,000 + Bonus + Equity
• 100% Remote with Hybrid Optional
• Paid Health Benefits ($0 Premiums)
• Dental, Vision, Life plans 
• Open Vacation
• 401k (50% match up to 3%)
• Paid Equipment
• Education Stipend
• Paid Holidays & Birthdays Off
• Parental Leave
• Team Offsites / Events
• Ticket hookups!

Tixr is the largest, fastest-growing, privately-held primary ticketing and live event commerce marketplace in the world. We're a California born and bred company that's still founder owned and led to this day, and we support a global client base with staff throughout the US, Canada, and UK.  We exclusively power 500 of the most respected live entertainment brands in 40 countries including LIV Golf, Wynn Nightlife, Riot Fest, Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, Riot Games Arena, Luke Bryan’s Crash My Playa, Sturgis Buffalo Chip, Lightning in a Bottle, Portland Trail Blazers’ New G League Affiliate Rip City Remix, among many others.