SoundCloud-posted 11 days ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Hybrid • Atlanta, NY
251-500 employees

SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400+ million tracks from 40 million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud. We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our growing Platform Enablement team. This is a central engineering team that supports various initiatives around SoundCloud, including marketing technology, privacy & consent and observability, across web and mobile devices. As an engineer on this team, you can expect a fast-paced environment and a variety of types of projects. Great communication skills are a must!

  • Develop and optimize SQL data models and queries for analytics, reporting, and operational use cases.
  • Design and maintain ETL/ELT workflows using Apache Airflow, ensuring reliability, scalability, and data integrity.
  • Collaborate with analysts and business teams to translate data needs into efficient, automated data pipelines and datasets.
  • Own and enhance data quality and validation processes, ensuring accuracy and completeness of business-critical metrics.
  • Build and maintain reporting layers, supporting dashboards and analytics tools (e.g. Looker, or similar).
  • Troubleshoot and tune SQL performance, optimizing queries and data structures for speed and scalability.
  • Contribute to data architecture decisions, including schema design, partitioning strategies, and workflow scheduling.
  • Mentor junior engineers, advocate for best practices and promote a positive team culture
  • 7+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or similar roles.
  • Expert-level SQL skills, including performance tuning, advanced joins, CTEs, window functions, and analytical query design.
  • Proven experience with Apache Airflow (designing DAGs, scheduling, task dependencies, monitoring, Python).
  • Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging systems (Pub/Sub, Kafka, etc.)
  • Knowledge of data governance, schema management, and versioning best practices
  • Understanding observability practices: logging, metrics, tracing, and incident response
  • Experience deploying and managing services in cloud environments, preferably GCP, AWS
  • Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as mental health resources
  • Robust 401k program
  • Employee Equity Plan
  • Generous professional development allowance
  • Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
  • Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
  • 16 paid weeks for all parents (birthing and non-birthing), regardless of gender, to welcome newborns, adopted and foster children
  • Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office
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