Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment and eCommerce company, comprised of four market leaders. They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and implement large-scale data systems, optimize data workflows, and leverage AI technologies to improve productivity and enhance pipeline reliability.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Ability to learn and utilize LLM-powered tools to generate, refactor, and explain complex SQL, PySpark logic, and pipeline configurations
- 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
Skills
- 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
Company Overview
Live Nation Entertainment is a producer, promoter, and seller of live concert tickets for artists and fans. It is a sub-organization of Priority Records. It was founded in 1996, and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.livenationentertainment.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Live Nation Entertainment has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 7 in 2026, 44 in 2025, 23 in 2024, 34 in 2023, 39 in 2022, 39 in 2021, 49 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.