Epidemic Sound
Senior Backend Engineer - Music Monetization & DRM
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · Stockholm HQ
Employer listed it 7 weeks ago · Found 3h ago
Been open since 7 weeks ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Hybrid · Stockholm HQ
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
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Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around Stockholm HQ, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Stockholm HQ, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
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- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
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About the role
Join our global force of 400+ innovators, blending the latest in tech with the greatest in soundtracking, from our Stockholm HQ to offices in London, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, Oslo, and Seoul. We’re an industry leader with a startup mentality. We take what we do seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Creating and collaborating to transform the sound of streaming, content, and culture. Come join us, and let the world feel your work
We are looking for two Senior Backend Engineers to join our team. Your primary responsibility will revolve around Digital Rights Management (DRM) with a specific emphasis on social media platforms, where YouTube currently represents our predominant focus. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of music rights within the dynamic digital landscape.
You'll leverage Google cloud services to enhance operations and contribute to innovative, efficient solutions. The role involves engaging with large datasets to derive data-driven insights, informing decisions for Epidemic Sound's revenue operations. The position offers a collaborative environment where your ideas are valued, and teamwork drives success. Additionally, you'll contribute to smart decision-making processes affecting revenue operations.
Your key responsibilities include:
Support our mission to make claiming and safelisting content smooth and secure for all users
Take ownership of services end to end, including the infrastructure and monitoring around them
Point us in the right direction when building services for our customers
Monitor and optimise services that fetch and analyse data from UGC platforms like YouTube
Work closely with data and machine learning engineers to ensure that our business operations can make the right decisions
About you
Experience with a strong command of backend technologies, you excel in designing, optimising and maintaining the core infrastructure that ensures our services run smoothly. Your expertise is particularly valuable when dealing with high-availability systems and complex partner API integrations.
Your proficiency extends to processing and managing large data volumes efficiently, all while adhering to the stringent compliance requirements of social media platforms. Your technical acumen is most notable in designing services that are simple to reason about and straightforward for the next person to pick up.
Moreover, your interest in areas such as Digital Rights Management (DRM) underscores your commitment to addressing backend challenges in handling and safeguarding large-scale datasets. Your contributions play a vital role in maintaining the integrity and reliability of our backend systems.
Requirements
Experience in backend development, ideally in Go, which is what we build our services in today
Data expertise: excel in processing and evaluating large volumes of data, with proficiency in SQL for data processing and integration tasks
Experience in algorithm evaluation, including testing and analysis of outputs
Cloud experience, preferably Google Cloud Platform
Comfortable building microservices, whether event-driven or request/response.
Comfortable owning your infrastructure end to end (Kubernetes, Helm and Terraform)
Strong communication skills: excel in English both written and verbal communication, crucial for collaboration and understanding in our global team
Nice to have
Proficiency in Kotlin, Java or Python is an advantage
Some TypeScript and React, enough to build small internal tools yourself
Requirements
- ·Experience in backend development, ideally in Go, which is what we build our services in today
- ·Data expertise: excel in processing and evaluating large volumes of data, with proficiency in SQL for data processing and integration tasks
- ·Experience in algorithm evaluation, including testing and analysis of outputs
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Epidemic Sound, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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