Senior Data Engineer
At Epidemic Sound, we make soundtracking content simple and inspiring with unlimited access to music and sound effects. Headquartered in Stockholm, with offices all over the world, we are a force of over 500 on a mission to soundtrack the world. Our innovative licensing model paves the way for creators - from YouTubers to small businesses to the world’s most recognizable brands such as Netflix, Redbull and BBC - to use sound to enhance their content while simultaneously supporting artists both financially and creatively. Epidemic Sound music is heard 2 billion times a day on YouTube alone and is recognized as one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies by the Financial Times. Epidemic Sound is backed by EQT, Blackstone, Creandum, Atwater Capital to name a few.
Join our mission to soundtrack the world! We are now looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data team to help us evolve our data platform and our tooling for data ingestion, processing and management.
How you will make an impact
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in building a scalable and robust data platform to enable us to leverage a broad range of data sources at the company. You will continue building upon and improving our data platform that runs on the Google Cloud platform, where part of our solution stack includes Airflow for data pipeline orchestration, Snowplow for event collection, BigQuery as data warehouse, and Kubernetes as the underlying infrastructure.
What you can expect to do:
Collaborate with a talented and diverse team to build and enhance our data platform to enable data collection, processing, access, usability and monitoring.
Create architectural guidelines, solutions and best practices for our data pipelines in Airflow/Composer.
Provision and manage resources in Google Cloud using Terraform.
Manage new and existing data sources into our ELT and reverse ETL pipelines.
Strategize optimal technical solutions for data governance, data cataloging and discovery, and data access.
Ensure data quality and reliability through implementing standardized monitoring, CI/CD and testing practices.
Work closely with stakeholders to understand data requirements and develop solutions that meet their needs.
Continuously explore and adopt new technologies and best practices to improve our data infrastructure
In order for you to thrive in this role, we believe that you have:
A passion for solving complex data problems and building data processing applications.
Experience with data pipelines, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
Solid understanding of software engineering practices, including version control, CI/CD, testing and documentation.
A love for teamwork and an ability to collaborate with Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers.
Proficiency in Python
Excellent communication skills with the ability to adapt technical topics for less technical audiences.
A pragmatic mindset with a focus on delivering practical solutions and making an impact.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
We believe that bringing people together from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives makes for a healthy workplace, a more successful business and a better world. We value diversity and encourage everyone to come and soundtrack the world with us.
Application
Do you want to be a part of our fantastic team? Please apply, in English, by clicking the link below.
- Department
- Tech & Data Analytics
- Locations
- HQ (Stockholm)
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time
HQ (Stockholm)
About Epidemic Sound
Join our global force of 500+ innovators, blending the latest in tech with the greatest in soundtracking, from our Stockholm HQ to offices in London, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Oslo, and Seoul. We’re an industry leader with a startup mentality. We take what we do seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Creating and collaborating to transform the sound of streaming, content, and culture. Come join us—and let the world feel your work.
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