What's next in music happens on SoundCloud first. As the worlds largest open audio platform, SoundCloud is powered by a connected community of creators, listeners and curators who share, discover and influence whats new, now and next in music and audio. We enrich people's lives through the shared love of sound and we are looking for a backend engineer to join our Search Team in Berlin.
As backend engineers at SoundCloud, we build the infrastructure for products that music listeners and creators love. Our work often involves large-scale distributed systems, parallel computing, and data science. We actively improve our tools and processes to support collaboration and productivity. We cultivate an environment where we can all learn and grow. For more,read about engineering at SoundCloud.
You have solid backend engineering skills and are motivated to work in these areas. You have experience with operations in a large production environment. You're proactive and have experience collaborating closely with other teams. You enjoy crafting simple solutions to complex engineering problems and are able to communicate them. You're an independent thinker, but thrive in a tight-knit team. You're committed to the products you work on.
If this describes you, we'd love to chat.
Prior experience with microservices, building infrastructure automation and continuous delivery are all highly valued. Go is the main language we use, so you are either already proficient in it or excited to learn. Experience in technologies such as Elasticsearch, Spark, Kafka, and data processing pipelines is a plus.
Diversity at SoundCloud:
SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization; they help us build a social platform and global community where anyone can create, discover, and share sounds. We acknowledge the challenges in our industry, and strive to develop an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute.
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Who are we?
Audius is a decentralized, community-owned, and artist-controlled music-sharing protocol. Audius provides a blockchain-based alternative to SoundCloud to help artists monetize their work and distribute it directly to fans. Audius launched it's public beta at the end of September and within the first week over 30,000 users listened to 13,000 tracks from artists that signed up to use Audius including Deadmau5, 3LAU, Brownies and Lemonade, Zeds Dead, with exclusive content from Rezz, Lido and others.
Who we are looking for?
We are looking for a backend engineer to help us design, build, and architect the Audius protocol. You are a collaborative, team player that enjoys working with a small team to solve big problems that need innovative solutions.