Major League Baseball is changing the landscape of the live sports and entertainment industry. Tickets.com delivers innovative, cutting-edge technologies to enable safe, unforgettable fan experiences in venues across the globe. We are assembling a world-class technology team to build platforms and products that anticipate emerging opportunities, including dynamic pricing and offers and digital, contactless ticketing. The Tickets.com mission is to provide premium, innovative live experiences for our clients and their patrons.

We are looking for a motivated and experienced principal software engineer to design, develop, and implement the next generation of our cloud-based data platform. This is a hands-on role, for a leader prepared to engage with a team in solving challenging problems using state-of-the-art technology. Our goal is to provide a holistic view of our data to drive the business of baseball and our clients’ businesses. You will partner with business stakeholders and product management to architect and build scaled, low-latency data platforms that facilitate research, analytics, monitoring and reporting. The ideal candidate will be a tenacious and creative problem solver with the ability to quickly prototype solutions.

• Ability to articulate technology vision and motivate others to follow 
• Ability to interface with all levels of employees 
• Ability to work both independently with little supervision and in a team environment
• Work within a strongly test-driven development structure
• Must be articulate and communicate effectively, both in written and oral formats 
• Exercise troubleshooting and problem-solving skills 
• Excellent attention to detail and organization skills
• Ability to maintain and meet schedules 

• Evaluate and reimagine current Products, Platforms, and Tools, include:
• Systems and service architecture and API design
• Data collection, storage, streams, analysis, visualization, and reporting
• Integrate all data and third-party analytics
• Evaluate and recommend latest cloud-based data analytics services

Technologies and Experience:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Computer Science (or equivalent) is required
• At least seven (7) years of data engineering experience with hands-on coding
• Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, Extract-Transform-Load (ETL), Reporting
• Proficiency in SQL & DML
• Informatica/Airflow and Visualization Tools such as Looker, Tableau
• Data Security and Privacy standards, including GDPR, CCPA
• Strong working knowledge of Agile process, CI/CD & build automation tools and SRE best-practices. 
• Experience with GIT required
• Key technical domains:
• Oracle, PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS
• MongoDB, Cassandra, or similar NoSQL database
• Google Cloud infrastructure, including BigQuery
• Message Brokers, such as ActiveMQ, Google PubSub, RabbitMQ
• Data Stream Platform, such as Apache Kafka