Senior Backend Engineer, Anti-Abuse Platform

SoundCloud; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

SoundCloud is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Anti-Abuse Team in London or Berlin. You will build scalable, end-to-end backend services, own architectural decisions, and collaborate with Product, Analytics, and Trust & Safety to address abuse patterns across the platform.

Strong experience with distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native tooling is essential. The role emphasizes real impact on platform safety and reliability, with ownership of projects from ground up and on-call

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience with distributed systems.
• Experience designing APIs consumed by multiple clients.
• Proficient in SQL for large datasets (BigQuery or equivalent).
• Know-how in API patterns like gRPC or GraphQL.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve reusable platform capabilities for abuse detection at scale.
• Shape architecture and strategy for scalable, resilient services.
• Collaborate with product, analytics, and safety teams to address abuse patterns.
• Own end-to-end problems from discovery to delivery.
• Make pragmatic technical decisions balancing cost, latency, and maintainability.
• Lead architectural discussions and improve engineering practices.

Skills

Go

SQL (BigQuery)

API design

GraphQL/gRPC

Scala

Tools

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

SoundCloud is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Anti-Abuse Team in London or Berlin. You will build scalable, end-to-end backend services, own architectural decisions, and collaborate with Product, Analytics, and Trust & Safety to address abuse patterns across the platform.

Strong experience with distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native tooling is essential. The role emphasizes real impact on platform safety and reliability, with ownership of projects from ground up and on-call