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Job Description We're currently working with a company that is huge in the entertainment industry. They specialize in hosting live events for fans around the world, with the main mission of giving fans access to their favorite forms of entertainment, whether that's sporting events, music events etc. They're currently looking for a Senior Engineer to join their Kafka team. This is a very unique role regarding the reliability of their Kafka infrastructure. In this role you'd be responsible for participating in technical direction and implementation of their software pipelines and observability platform. This critical team powers all aspects of their business from the sale of tickets for the world's largest live events to providing access into these events and more. You'd be working with the Manager of Kafka Engineer to assess the needs of Software Engineering within the Kafka Ecosystem. Required Skills & Experience
- Strong operational background running Kafka clusters at scale
- Knowledge of both physical/onprem systems and public cloud infrastructure
- Strong understanding of Kafka broker, connect, and topic tuning and architectures
- Strong understanding of Linux fundamentals as related to Kafka performance
- Filesystem tuning and related kernel tuning and troubleshooting
- Storage hardware and trade-offs
- Network TCP stack tuning and troubleshooting
- Background in both Systems and Software Engineering
- Competent developing software in 1 or more of high level language
- Competent with configuration management in code/IaC including Ansible and Terraform
- Competent operating Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in large scale environments - ( runtime settings, JMX, troubleshooting, garbage collection, etc )
- Passionate about data driven operations; building and leveraging observability with tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
- Knowledge and experience of containers and Kubernetes cluster
- Hands on experience delivering complex software in an enterprise environment
- Experience working in a remote team across multiple regions and time zones
- Comfortable working with structured Change and Incident Management
- Autonomous and proactive.
- Passionate about the value of broad scale streams processing
- Passionate about providing greater transparency to health and status of Ticketmaster systems
- Keenly empathetic to the day to day experience of software development teams
- A transparent communicator
- Deeply concerned with the security and compliance implications of your services and solutions
- Capable of delivering and accepting empathetic, constructive criticism with reports, peers, leadership and stakeholders
- Conscious of the developers need for speed of delivery and the enterprise need for governance and cost management
- Competitive Salary: Up to $150K/year, DOE + Bonus
- Medical Insurance & Health Savings Account (HSA)
- 401(k)
- Paid Sick Time Leave
- Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
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