Backend Software Engineer, SoundCloud
Authentication and Authorisation
+ Employee Stock Ownership Plan
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Next-generation music entertainment ecosystem
Job no longer available
Next-generation music entertainment ecosystem
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ Employee Stock Ownership Plan
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower artists and fans to connect and share through music.
Role
Who you are
- You have proven backend engineering skills and hands-on experiences as a backend engineer, and are motivated to work in these areas.
- You’re a team player, proactive, and have experience collaborating closely with other teams.
- You enjoy crafting simple solutions to sophisticated engineering problems and can communicate them to product managers.
- You’re an entrepreneurial thinker but thrive in a tight-knit team. You’re committed to the products you work on
- Many years of hands-on industry experience building complex product
- Have expert-level experience with one or more programming languages such as Scala, Go
- Good understanding of algorithms and data structures
- Care about privacy by design, security, testing, high-performance systems, and mentoring others
- Having good knowledge of cloud computing and any experience with IAM services such as AWS Cognito, and Auth0 would be a plus
- You love music
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Backend Software Engineer to join our Authentication and Authorisation team!
- As a backend software engineer within the Authentication and Authorisation team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions to safeguard the authenticity, confidentiality, and integrity of SC users
- Design, develop, implement, and maintain identity and access management solutions using Go/Scala
- Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
- Solve technical problems with large scope and complexity while you advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
- You will be part of the team maintaining systems in production including answering incidents etc
- Contribute to team and organizational improvements in processes and tooling
- Confidently own moderate to significantly complex features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects
- Continuously learn and share knowledge of industry best practices on IAM-related technologies
Our take
Founded in 2007, SoundCloud recognized the need for an artist-first platform. The company set out with a clear mission: to empower independent artists by providing them with the necessary tools and resources to grow and build their careers.
Today, SoundCloud boasts over 40M artists on its platform, far outpacing Spotify, which has 11M. As a result, SoundCloud is the largest audio discovery platform in a rapidly growing market. According to MIDiA Research, the independent artist market is poised for continued revenue growth in the coming years, further solidifying SoundCloud's place in the industry.
The company plans to scale its audience and expand its services through new offerings, such as the SoundCloud "roster". This tier system is designed to provide artists with significant creative and financial resources, along with market support, rivalling major record labels. While artists retain ownership of their copyrights, they will be represented by SoundCloud, further enhancing the platform's appeal to independent creators.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Feb 2020
$75m
SERIES G
Aug 2017
$170m
SERIES F
Total funding: $458.1m
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, BE
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