Principal Software Engineer

Victory Live

Job Location:

Atlanta, GA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 11 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

ABOUT VICTORY LIVE
Victory Live is a private equity backed technology company aimed at maximizing distribution and yield for live event ticket inventory. We provide an end-to-end software platform for the live ticketing industry managing thousands of sports theater and live music event tickets on behalf of artists promoters teams venues and professional resellers. Victory Lives comprehensive offerings include an established B2B marketplace along with both a full-service and an automated SaaS platform to handle all elements of the ticket sales lifecycle from ingestion to sales fulfillment.

THE POSITION
The Principal Engineer is one of the most senior technical voices at Victory Live. Youll work across teams to set engineering direction partner with technical leadership on systems that have to be right for the long haul and serve as a thought partner to engineering leadership on where we as a team and platform are headed. Youre an IC but your scope is the whole org: your influence shows up in other peoples code decisions and growth not just your own commits.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Set engineering direction across teams. Guide decisions on systems languages frameworks and patterns so they ladder up to company strategy not just local optima.
Lead our largest most complex initiatives such as multi-team initiatives and business critical strategic imperatives
Partner with Architects the Head of Product Engineering and the executive team on long-range platform strategy build/buy/partner calls and major investment tradeoffs.
Define and evolve best practices across teams code design review testing observability and AI-assisted engineering. Drive adoption and improvement not solely documentation.
Be the orgs AI engineering thought leader. Decide where agentic workflows code generation and AI tooling earn their keep; pilot to test and learn and remove things that do not work.
Solve the technical problems no one else can crack such as performance scale reliability cross-system correctness and document how you did it so the team learns.
Develop engineers into stronger team members and contributors preparing them and us for what comes next..
Hold the long-term line on scalability security and maintainability when shorter-term incentives push the other way.
Help define engineering standards enforced across the entire organization.

REQUIREMENTS

10 years of software engineering experience with a track record of cross-team technical leadership at growth-stage or larger companies.
Demonstrated impact on architecture and engineering practice at the org level not just on a single team.
Deep technical breadth: backend systems API design data infrastructure and at least one of web/mobile/platform.
Track record of introducing AI/ML or AI-assisted-development tooling into production engineering workflows and measurably improving developer productivity or code quality.
Excellent written communication as your design docs RFCs and postmortems should set the standard for the org.
Comfort operating with ambiguity and a bias toward structured execution over analysis paralysis.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Background in live events sports entertainment marketplaces or high-transaction consumer platforms.
Experience as a credible technical voice in M&A partner integrations or vendor selection.
Experience working with onshore offshore distributed teams without sacrificing quality.

WHY VICTORY LIVE

Youll build the infrastructure live events run on; millions of tickets hundreds of venues many of the largest teams and events in the world.
A lean team where decisions move fast and your code reaches real fans often the same week.
Every release has stakes. Every improvement is felt.
High expectations low tolerance for politics and a culture built on writing well and shipping with care.

ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES
We are a remote-first AI-native engineering team. Here is what that looks like in practice:

AI-assisted engineering. Every engineer uses Claude Claude Code Copilot and agentic tooling as a routine part of their workflow.
Remote-ready async-first. Most decisions happen in writing through Jira Confluence PR descriptions design docs. We over-communicate on changes and under-communicate on noise.
Ownership mindset. Engineers are responsible for what they write and no code reaches production without review. Reviewers are co-owners.
Observability is part of done. If the on-call engineer cant understand a system without reading source more logging metrics and dashboards are needed.
Preservation of quality of code and life. We write code that is clean tested and maintainable so it serves us well over time and we build sustainable processes so no one burns out or becomes a single point of failure.
Shared knowledge and continued education. We grow as a team by learning from each other through reviews documentation and collaboration.

OUR STACK & WAYS OF WORKING

VL1 (our core platform) B2B marketplace distribution integrations partner-facing APIs
Web & mobile clients REST APIs microservices
Languages: Ruby Python Typescript C-Sharp
Frameworks and Technologies: Rails Postgres DynamoDB MSSQL Server Docker Terraform
Cloud Providers: AWS Azure
Data: Snowflake dbt Dagster AWS Azure Data Factory Sigma Airflow
AI tooling: Anthropic / Claude Code GitHub Copilot in-house agentic workflows
Observability: Datadog Grafana Elastic/Kibana OpsGenie
Collaboration: Jira Confluence GitHub Slack Miro
Async-first agile cadences distributed onshore offshore teams

Victory Live is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ethnicity ancestry religion creed sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship status marital status disability gender identity gender expression Veteran status or another other characteristic protected by state local or federal law.

Required Experience:

Senior Manager

Set engineering direction across teams. Guide decisions on systems languages frameworks and patterns so they ladder up to company strategy not just local optima.
Lead our largest most complex initiatives such as multi-team initiatives and business critical strategic imperatives
Partner with Architects the Head of Product Engineering and the executive team on long-range platform strategy build/buy/partner calls and major investment tradeoffs.
Define and evolve best practices across teams code design review testing observability and AI-assisted engineering. Drive adoption and improvement not solely documentation.
Be the orgs AI engineering thought leader. Decide where agentic workflows code generation and AI tooling earn their keep; pilot to test and learn and remove things that do not work.
Solve the technical problems no one else can crack such as performance scale reliability cross-system correctness and document how you did it so the team learns.
Develop engineers into stronger team members and contributors preparing them and us for what comes next..
Hold the long-term line on scalability security and maintainability when shorter-term incentives push the other way.
Help define engineering standards enforced across the entire organization.

REQUIREMENTS

10 years of software engineering experience with a track record of cross-team technical leadership at growth-stage or larger companies.
Demonstrated impact on architecture and engineering practice at the org level not just on a single team.
Deep technical breadth: backend systems API design data infrastructure and at least one of web/mobile/platform.
Track record of introducing AI/ML or AI-assisted-development tooling into production engineering workflows and measurably improving developer productivity or code quality.
Excellent written communication as your design docs RFCs and postmortems should set the standard for the org.
Comfort operating with ambiguity and a bias toward structured execution over analysis paralysis.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Background in live events sports entertainment marketplaces or high-transaction consumer platforms.
Experience as a credible technical voice in M&A partner integrations or vendor selection.
Experience working with onshore offshore distributed teams without sacrificing quality.

WHY VICTORY LIVE

Youll build the infrastructure live events run on; millions of tickets hundreds of venues many of the largest teams and events in the world.
A lean team where decisions move fast and your code reaches real fans often the same week.
Every release has stakes. Every improvement is felt.
High expectations low tolerance for politics and a culture built on writing well and shipping with care.

ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES
We are a remote-first AI-native engineering team. Here is what that looks like in practice:

AI-assisted engineering. Every engineer uses Claude Claude Code Copilot and agentic tooling as a routine part of their workflow.
Remote-ready async-first. Most decisions happen in writing through Jira Confluence PR descriptions design docs. We over-communicate on changes and under-communicate on noise.
Ownership mindset. Engineers are responsible for what they write and no code reaches production without review. Reviewers are co-owners.
Observability is part of done. If the on-call engineer cant understand a system without reading source more logging metrics and dashboards are needed.
Preservation of quality of code and life. We write code that is clean tested and maintainable so it serves us well over time and we build sustainable processes so no one burns out or becomes a single point of failure.
Shared knowledge and continued education. We grow as a team by learning from each other through reviews documentation and collaboration.

OUR STACK & WAYS OF WORKING

VL1 (our core platform) B2B marketplace distribution integrations partner-facing APIs
Web & mobile clients REST APIs microservices
Languages: Ruby Python Typescript C-Sharp
Frameworks and Technologies: Rails Postgres DynamoDB MSSQL Server Docker Terraform
Cloud Providers: AWS Azure
Data: Snowflake dbt Dagster AWS Azure Data Factory Sigma Airflow
AI tooling: Anthropic / Claude Code GitHub Copilot in-house agentic workflows
Observability: Datadog Grafana Elastic/Kibana OpsGenie
Collaboration: Jira Confluence GitHub Slack Miro
Async-first agile cadences distributed onshore offshore teams

Required Experience:

Senior Manager

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Victory Live

As your trusted ticketing connector, Victory Live helps maximize your live event inventory, drive ticket sales, and create memorable experiences for all.

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