Senior Data Engineer - Data/Backend

SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400+ million tracks from 40 million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud.

We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team, which is responsible for the efficient, reliable, secure, and compliant propagation of all datasets across the company to our data warehouses. At SoundCloud, we rely heavily upon data-driven, informed decision making, and the Data Platform team is key to enabling that.

Key Responsibilities:

The Data Platform team cooperates mostly with infrastructure engineering on the back-end side, taking care of all the integrations, and builds software to make the data flow from the source into the data warehouse or the system which transforms data in real time. As a Data Engineer at SoundCloud, you will be experienced in designing and implementing highly scalable, distributed, real-time data pipelines and developing highly scalable and secure data services in languages like Go and Scala and Java. We also use Google Cloud Platform (DataFlow, BigTable, AI Platform, BigQuery, Kafka, Kubernetes, Spark, Airflow, Terraform).

Experience and Background:

• The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience in back-end engineering including 1-2 years of experience setting up data processing pipelines, ideally in the cloud environment (GCP)
• Experience designing and implementing (real-time) data processing systems, facilitating technical decisions, considering technical tradeoffs
• You are a strong individual contributor driven by solving challenging technical problems
• You are comfortable participating in architecture discussions, planning new and improving existing solutions
• You are comfortable with large scale data infrastructure (PBs scale). You understand the tradeoffs that come with it

Nice-To-Have 

• Experience with Cloud Migrations

• Experience deploying ML models in production

• Experience with DevOps tools and technologies

About us:

• We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London)
• We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home
• We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone’s voice, perspective and experience is respected and heard.
• We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops and enrichment opportunities

Benefits:

• Not located in Berlin? No worries, we offer extensive relocation support including allowances, one way flights, temporary accommodation and, by partnering with Expath, on the ground support on arrival
• Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
• Employee Equity Plan
• Generous professional development allowance
• Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
• We offer free German courses at beginning, intermediate and advanced
• Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at SoundCloud

SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization; they help us lead what’s next in music by understanding and empowering our creators and fans, no matter their identity. We acknowledge the challenges in the music industry, and strive to influence an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute respectfully and thrive, especially the historically marginalized communities that many of our creators, fans and SoundClouders identify with. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment at SoundCloud for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or care-giver status.

At SoundCloud you can find your community or elevate your allyship by joining a Diversity Resource Group. Diversity Resource Groups are employee-organized groups focused on supporting and promoting the interests of a particular underrepresented community in order to build a more inclusive culture at SoundCloud. Anyone can join, whether you share the identity or strive to be an ally.