About the role

Senior Software Application Engineer leading architectural evolution of critical systems at Warner Music Group. Analyzing existing designs for scalability, performance, and cost optimization.

Responsibilities

Reimagine and implement the future of tech for the music industry
Work as part of a dynamic and highly effective team
Own the creation and delivery of highly innovative products
Implement maintainable solutions with high quality and reliability that can scale as our business continues to grow and expand
Learn and grow as a professional through close collaboration with your team members and engineering leaders, and by being part of culture of continuous improvement and learning
Provide mentorship to other engineers, fostering their professional growth and success
Respond to incidents and perform on-call duties with an eye towards root cause fixes and improvements

You have an undergraduate or graduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other related field
You have at least 6 years of experience in backend or full stack development
You have a deep knowledge of AWS or other large cloud computing environment
You have strong distributed systems skills: How to make things fast and scalable, how to measure things (e.g. latency, throughput)
You have strong operational excellence best practices: Testing, monitoring, paging, and incident management
You have a strong understanding of developing APIs, backend services, databases, data pipelines, data warehousing
You have built or developed large-scale data processing pipelines and/or large, high-availability dimensional datastores
You have a high sense of ownership and a drive to deliver impact in a fast-paced, evolving, ambiguous environment
You have experience in building projects with good abstractions and clean architecture
You have strong debugging skills and the ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues
You have a drive to grow, learn, and master the craft of software development