Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer - Platform Enablement

SoundCloud

Location:
United States , New York ▼
Atlanta
East Coast

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

160000.00 - 210000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

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!

Job Responsibility:

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

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

What we offer:

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
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

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 12, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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