Epidemic Sound is looking for two Senior Backend Engineers to join the team focused on Digital Rights Management (DRM), with a specific emphasis on social media platforms — YouTube is currently the predominant focus. You'll leverage Google Cloud services and engage with large datasets to derive data-driven insights informing Epidemic Sound's revenue operations, working closely with data and machine learning engineers.

Key Responsibilities

Support the 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 the team in the right direction when building services for 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 the business can make the right decisions

Requirements

Experience with backend technologies, designing, optimising and maintaining core infrastructure, particularly high-availability systems and complex partner API integrations
Experience in backend development, ideally in Go
Data expertise processing and evaluating large volumes of data, with proficiency in SQL
Experience in algorithm evaluation, including testing and analysis of outputs
Cloud experience, preferably Google Cloud Platform
Comfortable building microservices (event-driven or request/response) and owning infrastructure end to end (Kubernetes, Helm and Terraform)
Strong written and verbal English communication skills

Nice to have

Proficiency in Kotlin, Java or Python
Some Type: Script and React
Interest in DRM protocols and practices
Familiarity with audio formats, codecs or streaming
Exposure to machine learning systems in production

Senior Backend Engineer - Music Monetization & DRM