Backend Engineer, Media Streaming at Global Scale

SoundCloud; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Gym membership

Employee equity plan

Development allowance

Flexible vacation

2 free lunches weekly

Job summary

SoundCloud is expanding its Media Streaming Team to operate a global-scale media streaming platform. We engineer backend services that power millions of users and collaborate across Android, iOS, web, and full-stack teams to deliver seamless audio experiences.

With 4+ years in backend or distributed systems and Go expertise, you’ll help scale infrastructure, implement IaC with Terraform, and work in cloud-native environments like AWS or GCP. Join us to shape music delivery at scale.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building and operating large-scale backend or distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Go.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Experience with cloud-native environments such as AWS or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to building, scaling and maintaining backend APIs and services that serve millions of users.
• Collaborate with Android, iOS, web, and full-stack engineers to deliver seamless end-to-end media experiences.
• Ensure performance, scalability, and maintainability of SoundCloud’s services.
• Debug complex issues across systems, ensuring a consistent experience for users globally.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and roadmap planning.
• Be part of on-call rotation to ensure reliability and availability of SoundCloud’s systems.

Skills

Go

Terraform

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

Microservices

SQL/NoSQL

Container technologies

CI/CD

Testing/defensive coding

Tools

Terraform

Job description

SoundCloud is expanding its Media Streaming Team to operate a global-scale media streaming platform. We engineer backend services that power millions of users and collaborate across Android, iOS, web, and full-stack teams to deliver seamless audio experiences.

With 4+ years in backend or distributed systems and Go expertise, you’ll help scale infrastructure, implement IaC with Terraform, and work in cloud-native environments like AWS or GCP. Join us to shape music delivery at scale.