Senior Platform Engineer (m/f/d) – Germany or UK – Remote or Hybrid

ICE; Greater London; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company at the intersection of technology and music is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their dynamic team. In this role, you will drive the full lifecycle of platform development, ensuring seamless delivery of music royalties to artists and publishers. With a focus on collaboration and continuous improvement, you will work with cutting-edge technologies such as AWS, Kafka, and containerization. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in the music industry while enjoying flexible working arrangements and comprehensive training opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Mental health initiatives

Comprehensive training opportunities

Enhanced holiday allowance

Team socials and company events

Qualifications

• Strong programming background in Java or TypeScript.
• Experience with scalable and resilient architectures.
• Knowledge of event-driven systems and databases.

Responsibilities

• Drive the full lifecycle of the platform from analysis to operations.
• Support development teams in platform and infrastructure evolution.
• Provide health and cost monitoring tools and automation.

Skills

Java

TypeScript

Domain-Driven Design

Event-Driven Architectures

AWS

Relational Databases

NoSQL Databases

Microservices

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

Pulumi

Terraform

Ansible

DataDog

Job description

Senior Platform Engineer (m/f/d) – Germany or UK – Remote or Hybrid

Germany or UK

About ICE

ICE is a purpose-driven organisation, founded by rightsholders, for rightsholders.
We exist to support songwriters, enabling societies and publishers to accurately compensate them when their work is used internationally.
We operate at the exciting intersection of technology, music, and data.

Since our 2010 launch, we have paid billions to rightsholders through deep expertise in Copyright, Processing and Licensing.
Our collaboration with stakeholders across the industry delivers best practice, new processes & innovative solutions for better royalty flows.
Strategic investment in technology enables us to process trillions of streams, to deliver the maximum revenue for rightsholders.

ICE has grown to distribute more than €1bn in royalties per year, licensing music services such as Spotify, Apple, YouTube and TikTok.

About the Team

In Royalty Processing domain we are building scalable, event-driven services. We prioritise rapid release cycles, code quality, and collaboration with our business partners. We optimise our delivery process via platform that enables seamless testing, deployment, and monitoring across our entire technology stack.

Since the inception few years ago, we have run the platform very collaboratively where our engineers are co-founders and contributors to platform strategy and infrastructure pieces. Out platform is very lean and successfully fulfils the business needs, engineering requirements and supports rapid prototyping and evolution. As we are growing further, we are formalising the platform team as a supporting engineering entity, which will be maintaining existing collaborative patterns and will be responsible for continuous support of teams using the platform and to coordinate its evolution with growing business and team needs, maturing it further towards long-term sustainable success.

Our values include:

• taking responsibility of initiatives to completion,
• embrace autonomy without constant direction and control,
• continuous learning and improvement,
• clear communication and teamwork,
• high-quality software that drives impact,
• we run our own services.

Our current technical stack includes:

• backend services are containerised and provisioned into ECS clusters,
• service communication via Kafka (Confluent Cloud),
• infrastructure automation with Pulumi (Typescript),
• our infrastructure is hosted at AWS (most used: ECS, S3, DynamoDB, Aurora, OpenSearch),
• Github Actions for builds and workflow automation,
• DataDog for monitoring and alerts.

About the Role

The role of platform engineer in domain is to support the teams using the platform and to evolve it with growing business and team needs.

You will play central part in the successful delivery of music royalties to musicians, composers, and publishers. You will be responsible for providing knowledge and implementation for long-term support and evolution of team platform needs, enabling people to do what is needed. You will enable teams in the development, delivery, evolution, and maintenance of music royalty processing system.

We're looking for candidates who are based in the UK or Germany (or have the right to work in these countries) to join our dynamic team. If you're passionate about product development, collaboration, and making a difference in the music industry, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive the full lifecycle of our platform (analysis, design, implementation, testing, infrastructure, and operations).
• Support development teams in terms of platform and infrastructure development and evolution.
• Cooperate with global IT platform of technical organisation and security team to keep platform up to security standards.
• Provide health and cost monitoring tools and automation of platform, CI/CD pipeline templates and blueprints.
• Proactively optimise performance and cost.
• Coaching, mentorship, and training of your colleagues.

Requirements and Qualifications (not all items are must-have):

• Programming background is essential (high level language, ideally Java or TypeScript).
• A strong background in the design and implementation of scalable, resilient, cost-effective and auto-scaling architectures.
• Understanding of Domain-Driven Design and Collaborative modelling.
• Experience with event-driven architectures / Apache Kafka.
• Building on the AWS using any of the common automation frameworks like Pulumi, Terraform or Ansible.
• Experience with large-scale system handling terabytes of data and tens of thousands of messages per second.
• Experience operating relational (Oracle, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, Cassandra, ElasticSearch) databases.
• Experience with monolith-to-microservices migrations and patterns such as strangler and change-data-capture.
• You like music :)

What we offer:

• Competitive local benefits based on your location
• We promote flexible working regarding time and/or place
• Both mental and physical health initiatives
• Comprehensive training and development opportunities
• Industry insider events, team socials and company events
• Enhanced holiday allowance
  
  

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and any other protected characteristic.
We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to candidates with disabilities. Please speak to our recruitment team and we will work with you to make reasonable adjustments to ensure you can perform at your best throughout your application.

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