Senior Backend Engineer, Product and Infra
Core
Design and maintain backend data services, ETL pipelines, and streaming systems that power content discovery, search, and real-time interactions for a music platform.
Role type
Senior Backend Engineer (Data Infrastructure & Services)
Builds
Production data services, APIs, ETL/ELT pipelines, and streaming processing components for content metadata and usage analytics.
Domain
Music streaming platform, data engineering, distributed systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Python, Go, SQL, data modeling, ETL/ELT pipeline design, event-driven architectures, BigQuery optimization, schema evolution, operational reliability
Preferred skills
Information retrieval, indexing systems, fingerprinting/perceptual hashing, batch + streaming architecture blending, microservices design
Technologies
Python, Go, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Beam, Kafka
Responsibilities
Design application-level data models for rich content; build high-reliability ETLs and streaming pipelines; develop data services exposing unified content; implement fingerprinting pipelines for rights and safety; ensure data consistency across ingestion and reporting systems; define and track operational metrics; collaborate with Product and Research teams on data structures and usage datasets.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
