Senior Data Engineer, SoundCloud
Data Corpus
+ Employee Stock Ownership Plan
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Next-generation music entertainment ecosystem
Open for applications
Next-generation music entertainment ecosystem
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Employee Stock Ownership Plan
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower the world's audio creators with the best tools, services and resources to build and grow their careers.
Role
Who you are
- As a Senior individual contributor, you will be able to manage stakeholders, plan and lead technical projects, and identify and focus the business value of projects
- Senior Level Data Professional
- 6 + years experience ideal, 4 + years minimum experience
- Experience working with Cloud technologies
- GCP (required)
- AWS/Azure is also nice to have
- Experience working with BigQuery
- Advanced SQL knowledge
- Python experience
- Airflow experience
- Experience working with big data (terabyte/petabyte scale)
- Experience in Data Architecture/solution design
- Experience working in Agile methodology, ideally working with Jira
- Experience in data warehousing and analytical data modelling
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and code repositories (Git preferred)
- Experiencing in building complex and high-reliability ETL pipelines
- Experience building data for BI Tools (Looker preferred)
- Experience building datasets for product and business KPIs
- Knowledge of basic statistical concepts and methods
- Experience producing high-quality technical documentation
- Excellent English-speaking communicator and demonstrator
Desirable
- Experience in basic QA engineering and testing methodologies
- Experience with experimentation (A/B testing) tools and processes
- Experience working with subscription-based businesses
- Experience integrating third-party tools and systems
- Data visualisation skills
- Experience with terraform
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer (Level 3) to join the Data Foundations department in our Data Corpus team
- You will help us continue building our unified and standardized data warehouse, Corpus, which is used across SoundCloud for reporting, data science, and analytics, building data products, or simply answering questions
- You will also help us build out our business-ready data layer to be used in dashboarding and for simplified data usage
- The Data Corpus team is responsible for building and maintaining SoundCloud’s petabyte-scale GCP data warehouse
- You will build and maintain the warehouse to abstract the complexity of SoundCloud’s vast data ecosystem to exploit and get value from data
- You will work closely with business reporting, data science, and product teams
- You will gather and refine requirements, design data architecture and solutions, and build ETL pipelines using Airflow to land data in BigQuery and beyond
- You will model and build out the business-ready data layer, designed to feed dashboarding tools with KPIs and simplify data access for business and product stakeholders
- You will have knowledge and passion for analytics engineering
- You are a strong individual contributor who thrives in a dynamic environment and is motivated by solving challenging data problems
Our take
Founded in 2007, SoundCloud saw the need for an artist-first platform. They set out to empower independent artists and equip them with the necessary tools and resources to build and grow their careers.
SoundCloud has over 40 million artists on the platform (in comparison to Spotify's 11 million), making them the biggest audio discovery platform in a large and growing market. According to Midia Research, the independent artist market is bound to see unhindered revenue growth for the next few years.
The company plans to scale up its audience and expand its services through new offerings such as the SoundCloud "roster". This is a tier system that provides significant creative and financial resources, as well as financial and marketing support to artists (essentially rivaling large-scale record companies). While artists will maintain ownership of their copyrights they are to be represented by SoundCloud.
SoundCloud's expansion into new markets and regions is still full steam ahead. Through acquisitions, partnerships and even better product offerings, SoundCloud is bent on cementing its standing as every creator's springboard.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Feb 2020
$75m
SERIES G
Aug 2017
$170m
SERIES F
Total funding: $459.2m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as mental health resources
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan
- Generous professional development allowance
- Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
- Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
- 16 paid weeks for all parents (birthing and non-birthing), regardless of gender, to welcome newborns, adopted and foster children
- Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, BE
Articles
Leadership
Alexander Ljung
(Chairman)Served as CEO of SoundCloud for 10 years, becoming Chairman in 2017. Has gone onto co-found Dance.
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