Backend Engineer – Media Streaming

Overview

In this role, you will help operate SoundCloud’s media streaming platform at global scale, delivering top-tier audio experiences to creators and listeners. You’ll join the Media Streaming Team and work closely with mobile, web, and backend engineers to build reliable, scalable services. You’ll tackle cross-system debugging and contribute to architecture, code reviews, and roadmaps to improve performance and resilience. You’ll be on-call to ensure availability and join a culture focused on collaboration and continuous delivery. This is a chance to shape how millions experience music and to contribute to SoundCloud’s mission to empower artists worldwide.

Pay / Benefits

• Creativity and Wellness benefit
• Employee Equity Plan
• Professional development allowance
• Flexible vacation and up to 35 days PTO
• 2 free lunches weekly when at the office
• Snacks and office perks

Responsibilities

• Build, scale, and maintain backend APIs and services serving millions of users
• Collaborate with Android, iOS, web, and full-stack engineers for end-to-end media experiences
• Ensure performance, scalability, and maintainability of SoundCloud services
• Debug complex cross-system issues to ensure a consistent global user experience
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and roadmap planning
• On-call rotation to maintain reliability and availability

Key requirements

• 4+ years of experience building and operating large-scale backend or distributed systems
• Proficiency in Go
• Terraform IaC experience
• Experience with cloud-native environments (AWS or GCP)
• Experience with microservices, SQL/NoSQL databases, and containers
• Strong focus on software craftsmanship: continuous delivery, defensive programming, automated testing, clean code
• Ownership mindset and ability to navigate ambiguity in fast-moving environments
• Collaborative attitude and willingness to help teammates to achieve team success

• strong ownership
• collaborative
• proactive communication
• Go
• Terraform
• AWS or GCP

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