Data Engineer, Splice
$95-118.7k
Royalty-free sounds and samples for making music
Be an early applicant
Royalty-free sounds and samples for making music
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$95-118.7k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make music creation a more fulfilling and empowering experience for all.
Role
Who you are
- The work requires hands-on data engineering experience. Our stack; BigQuery, SQLMesh, Python, Dagster- is distinct from Splice's web engineering stack, and effective contribution requires domain expertise in data pipeline systems, not general software engineering background
- 3+ years of hands-on data engineering experience in a production environment
- Proficiency in SQL — window functions, CTEs, query optimization, execution plan analysis
- Proficiency in Python for pipeline logic, data transformation, and testing (maintainable code, not just scripts)
- Experience with a modern transformation framework — SQLMesh, dbt, or equivalent — including incremental models, testing, and documentation
- Production experience with a cloud data warehouse (we use BigQuery); understands partitioning, clustering, and cost management
- Experience with at least one workflow orchestrator (Dagster, Airflow, Prefect, or equivalent)
- Demonstrated ability to build observable, reliable data systems — alerting, dashboards, and data quality checks
- Comfortable owning small-to-medium features from technical design through delivery with limited guidance
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Data Engineer II to join Splice's Data Engineering team and help scale the platform that powers creator payouts, revenue reporting, and product analytics across Splice's product lines
- Data Engineering builds and maintains the reliable foundation that makes trusted data possible, enabling teams across Splice to work from a governed, consistent source of truth
- We are accountable for the warehouse and pipeline foundation; ingestion, transformations, and the standards and quality guardrails that keep data consistent, timely, and usable
- This is a mid-level, high-ownership role: engineers here carry features from technical design through delivery, monitoring, and documentation, and participate in our on-call rotation
- Build and maintain data models in SQLMesh, including incremental strategies, testing, and documentation
- Continuously improve and evolve our orchestration and transformation infrastructure as the platform scales
- Modernize legacy pipeline jobs in Python and SQLMesh, reducing technical debt over time
- Participate in on-call rotation; triage and resolve incidents including ETL failures, data unavailability, and core metric breakage
- Build introspectable software: define alert thresholds, emit metrics and logs, produce dashboards, and establish closed-loop escalation paths
- Improve observability across the platform so failures are caught early and resolved quickly
- Extend and maintain pipelines powering creator payouts and GAAP-compliant revenue reporting across Splice's product lines
- Build pipeline support for new revenue streams as Splice launches them
- Improve query performance and reduce compute costs in BigQuery
- Contribute to ingestion platform work and product analytics infrastructure
- Uphold our definition of done: validation complete, documentation updated, monitoring in place before closing a ticket
Our take
Traditionally, making music has relied on instruments, musicians, and a lot of coordination. Splice turns the music industry on its head by streamlining the process of creating, collaborating, and sharing music.
Acting like a GitHub for musicians, Splice sets itself apart from other music production software by offering samples and loops to its customers for a relatively affordable monthly flat fee, while simultaneously allowing creative artists to sell their sounds for royalty-free use. As such, the platform has been used by more than 2.5 million users, from bedroom DJs to mainstream artists such as Eminem, Ariana Grande, and Drake.
Splice co-founder Steve Martocci brings a track record from his previous startup, GroupMe, which was sold to Skype for $85 million just a year after launching. Splice is now valued at nearly half a billion dollars and is focusing on partnerships and adding more samples to its library to work on its product and attract new customers.
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Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2021
$55m
SERIES D
Mar 2019
$57.5m
SERIES C
Total funding: $159.8m
Company benefits
- Time Off: Unlimited PTO to recharge and thrive
- Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Retirement Savings: 401(k) plan with immediate vesting and company match
- Parental Support: 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for non-birthing parents, and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents
- Flexible Work Options: Work remotely or connect at our office hubs and creative spaces worldwide
- Professional Growth: Annual learning budget, leadership programs, and team ambassador opportunities
- Community & Connection: Inclusive events, team meet-ups, and vibrant Employee Resource Groups
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Kakul Srivastava
(CEO)Became CEO of Splice in 2022. Prior to this, they were the VP of Creative Cloud Experience & Engagement at Adobe, the CEO of Project Sublime, the VP of Product Management & Marketing at GitHub, and the CPO at WeWork.
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