Lead Principal Software Engineer/Systems Architect

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Soundcloud71 · NY

$240K–$280K/yrFull-timeOn-site5d ago

API DesignAWSCachingGCPGraphQLLeadership

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About the role

We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London) We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone's voice, perspective and experience is respected and heard We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops and enrichment opportunities

Responsibilities

Jump into highly complex legacy systems to understand not only the current state, but identifying root causes of architectural friction and a path forward

Transition seamlessly from deep-dive debugging to high-level system design, conceiving and socializing the overall plan for SoundCloud's API and core infrastructure

Lead from the trenches by writing foundational, high-performance code that sets the gold standard for engineering excellence

Leverage agentic workflows and AI-assisted engineering as a force multiplier to map legacy logic and accelerate the modernization of core systems at 10x the speed of traditional methods

Help establish guardrails, guidelines, and knowledge bases so these agents will act with efficiency and safety for you and the other engineering teams

Ensure that throughout its evolution, the platform is performant, scalable, reliable, and malleable. The goal is long term stability, reduced risk, and higher velocity, improved visibility, and rapid experimentation.

Partner with other senior engineers as we define and build the next generation of SoundCloud's systems

Collaborate with Product, Frontend, Data, Security, and Platform teams to deliver solutions aligned with business and user needs

Partner with the CTO and other key technical leads in the company to identify the most critical projects

Experience and Background:

10+ years of experience with a proven track record of entering "unknown-unknown" environments and bringing architectural order to chaos in high-scale distributed systems

Deep experience with REST/GraphQL APIs, microservices, caching, databases, and cloud infrastructure (AWS and/or GCP)

Strong mentoring and team development skills, with ability to influence cross-functional engineering and product teams

A systems thinker with the heart of a hacker. You must be equally comfortable whiteboarding a 3-year roadmap as you are in a high-pressure war room debugging a production bottleneck

Proven experience leading 'strike teams' or 'SWAT units' in high-scale environments where you were personally responsible for both the diagnostic and the delivery

The salary range for this role is $240,000 - $280,000 annually. The final salary offered will be determined based on relative experience, skills, internal equity, and location. We also offer a generous total rewards program - read more about additional benefits and perks below!

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