Senior Data Engineer - Platform Enablement

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!

Key Responsibilities:

• 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

Experience and Background:

• 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.

The salary range for this role is $160,000 - $210,000 annually. The final salary offered will be determined based on relative experience, skills, internal equity, and location. We also offer a generous total rewards program - read more about additional benefits and perks below!

About us:

• We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London)

• We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home

• We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone’s voice, perspective and experience is respected and heard

• We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops and enrichment opportunities

Benefits:

• 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

• Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a 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

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at SoundCloud

SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization; they help us lead what’s next in music by understanding and empowering our creators and fans, no matter their identity. We acknowledge the challenges in the music industry, and strive to influence an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute respectfully and thrive, especially the historically marginalized communities that many of our creators, fans and SoundClouders identify with. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment at SoundCloud for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or care-giver status.

At SoundCloud you can find your community or elevate your allyship by joining a Diversity Resource Group. Diversity Resource Groups are employee-organized groups focused on supporting and promoting the interests of a particular underrepresented community in order to build a more inclusive culture at SoundCloud. Anyone can join, whether you share the identity or strive to be an ally.