Senior Backend Engineer, SoundCloud

Developer Experience

Salary not provided

Employee Equity Plan

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Scala

Node.js

Terraform

Bazel

Senior and Expert level

Berlin

London

Next-generation music entertainment ecosystem

Job no longer available

Next-generation music entertainment ecosystem

501-1000 employees

B2CMusicSaaSCommunityMedia

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

Employee Equity Plan

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Scala

Node.js

Terraform

Bazel

Senior and Expert level

Berlin

London

501-1000 employees

B2CMusicSaaSCommunityMedia

Company mission

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

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Proficiency in at least one backend language - Go, Scala, or Node.js - and an eagerness to work across a polyglot codebase
Experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred); bonus points for exposure to EKS, GCP, or hybrid setups
Familiarity with CI/CD tools (especially GitHub Actions), infrastructure as code (Terraform), and containerized deployments
Excellent communication and collaboration skills - you'll work directly with other engineering teams and need to understand their workflows and pain points
Interest in developer tooling, platform engineering, or Internal Developer Portals
Experience building or maintaining internal tooling such as CLIs or automation frameworks is a strong plus
A mindset focused on clarity, documentation, and enabling self-service across the org
Some exposure to observability concepts and tools - metrics, traces, logs - ideally with OpenTelemetry and LGTM stack components
Nice to have: experience with Bazel and large-scale monorepos
Curiosity and a willingness to learn new tools and practices as the platform evolves

What the job involves

Contribute to the design and development of backend services that power SoundCloud’s internal developer platform
Build and maintain tools that improve the developer experience across CI/CD, deployment visibility, documentation, and system health
Extend and maintain our Go-based internal CLI used across engineering for tasks like deployment, scaffolding, and service introspection
Collaborate closely with other engineering teams—our key stakeholders—to understand their needs and build solutions that reduce friction and increase velocity
Help evolve our Internal Developer Portal (based on Backstage), surfacing key metadata like service ownership, deployments, and alerts
Make key information easily discoverable to support self-service and effective onboarding for new engineers
Develop and operate cloud-native services running in Kubernetes across AWS (EKS), GCP, and on-prem
Participate in ongoing improvements to our observability stack using OpenTelemetry and the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir)

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.