Senior Data Engineer - Platform Enablement

SoundCloud • Atlanta, NY

62d • Hybrid

About The Position

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!

Requirements

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees