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Epidemic Sound is a global music licensing and rights management platform with 400+ employees across offices in Stockholm, London, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, Oslo, and Seoul. The company combines startup mentality with industry-leading technology to transform how music rights work in the digital streaming landscape.
You will join the Digital Rights Management (DRM) team focused on social media platforms, primarily YouTube. Your role is to build and maintain backend services that handle content claiming and safelisting—the core operations that keep music rights management smooth, secure, and compliant at scale. You'll work with large datasets on Google Cloud Platform to support revenue operations decisions and help shape the technical direction of customer-facing services.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing and maintaining reliable, high-availability backend services for claiming and safelisting workflows
- Guiding technical direction for services built for customers and partners
- Monitoring and optimizing data-fetching and analysis services that integrate with platforms like YouTube
- Owning services end-to-end, including infrastructure, deployment, and observability
- Collaborating closely with data and machine learning engineers on pipelines and models that your services feed
The team uses AI coding tools as a standard part of the development workflow, so you'll spend more time directing, reviewing, and architecting than writing boilerplate code.
Requirements:
- Proven backend development experience; services are built in Go, so Go experience is valuable, but strong experience in Kotlin, Java, or Python is transferable
- Strong ability to process and evaluate large volumes of data; proficiency in SQL for data processing and integration tasks
- Cloud platform experience, preferably Google Cloud Platform
- Experience building microservices (event-driven or request/response architectures)
- Comfortable owning infrastructure end-to-end: Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform
- Experience in algorithm evaluation, including testing and analyzing outputs
- Fluent English, written and spoken
Nice to have:
- TypeScript and React skills sufficient to build small internal tools
- Familiarity with audio formats, codecs, or streaming technology
- Exposure to machine learning systems in production
- Digital Rights Management (DRM) experience or similar domain background
