VP of Engineering - Foundational Platform
Epidemic Sound
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Country / Region
- Sweden
- City / Location
- Stockholm
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Director / Executive (10+ years XP)
- Salary
- Not communicated
- Language(s) required
- English
- Job offer language
- English
- Applications open until
- 27 October 2026
Epidemic Sound is hiring a VP of Engineering - Foundational Platform in Stockholm, Sweden. This is a full-time, hybrid position in Software, Tech & Data Analytics at director / executive level. Applications are open until 27 October 2026.
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As VP of Engineering for Foundational Platform, you will own the technical backbone that every product team at Epidemic Sound builds on, spanning five teams across ML/AI Ops, Developer Experience, Experience Foundations, Data Platform and Service Infrastructure. You will report to the CTO and work closely with engineering leaders to ensure the platform stays ahead of business needs, with a particular focus on agentic-first service deployment and the infrastructure required to run AI agents in production.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the reliability, scalability and security of core infrastructure, including identity and authorisation, ensuring enterprise-grade quality for customers
- Lead, mentor and develop engineering managers and their teams across five platform teams
- Set and maintain a technical vision and roadmap that anticipates the needs of the three product areas and drives platform strategy for the engineering organisation
- Drive the Developer Experience agenda, ensuring engineers can build, evolve and operate services quickly and with confidence
- Champion agentic development practices across teams, ensuring AI models and agents move from experiment to production without friction
- Hold clear commercial accountability across the group, understanding how platform decisions affect engineering velocity, cost and gross margin
- Collaborate with engineering leaders to align platform direction with product needs
Requirements
- Deep expertise in platform or infrastructure engineering, with strong understanding of developer tooling, cloud-native architectures and internal engineering customer needs
- At least 15 years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 in leadership roles managing managers
- Proven technical leadership at scale (Director, VP or CTO), setting technical direction across multiple teams in a growth-oriented company
- Experience with agentic AI systems in production
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, translating complex platform topics into clear business outcomes
- A commercial understanding of how platform investment affects engineering velocity, gross margin, cost control and competitiveness
- Active use of AI agents in your own work, with experience embedding agentic practices into engineering teams
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