Senior Backend & Data Engineer, SoundCloud

Content Platform

Salary not provided

SQL

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Scala

Kafka

Terraform

Senior and Expert level

Berlin

London

More information about location

Next-generation music entertainment ecosystem

Be an early applicant

Next-generation music entertainment ecosystem

501-1000 employees

B2CMusicSaaSCommunityMedia

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

SQL

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Scala

Kafka

Terraform

Senior and Expert level

Berlin

London

More information about location

501-1000 employees

B2CMusicSaaSCommunityMedia

Company mission

To empower artists and fans to connect and share through music.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Proven experience in backend engineering (Scala/Go/Python) with strong design and data modeling skills
Hands-on experience building ETL/ELT pipelines and streaming solutions on cloud platforms (GCP preferred)
Proficient in SQL and experienced with relational and NoSQL databases
Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging systems (Pub/Sub, Kafka, etc.)
Knowledge of data governance, schema management, and versioning best practices
Understanding observability practices: logging, metrics, tracing, and incident response
Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Experience deploying and managing services in cloud environments, preferably GCP, AWS
Strong collaboration skills and ability to work across backend, data, and product teams

What the job involves

SoundCloud is looking for a Senior Backend and Data Engineer to join our growing Content Platform team!
As Backend and Data engineers at SoundCloud, we build the infrastructure for products that music listeners and creators love
Our work often involves large-scale distributed systems, parallel computing, and data science. We actively improve our tools and processes to support collaboration and productivity. We cultivate an environment where we can all learn and grow
Design, build, and maintain high-performance services for content modeling, serving, and integration
Develop data pipelines (batch & streaming) with cloud native tools
Collaborate on rearchitecting the content model to support rich metadata
Implement APIs and data services that power internal products, external integrations, and real-time features
Ensure data quality, governance, and validation across ingestion, storage, and serving layers
Optimize system performance, scalability, and cost efficiency for both backend services and data workflows
Work with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines for deployment and automation
Monitor, debug, and improve reliability using various observability tools (logging, tracing, metrics)
Collaborate with product leadership, music industry experts, and engineering teams across SoundCloud

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.