Senior Software Engineer - Anti-Abuse

About the role

SoundCloud is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Anti-Abuse team to build and operate an abuse prevention platform at global scale. You will design scalable, event-based services to keep connections between fans and creators safe and authentic. This role involves end-to-end ownership of projects, balancing long-term architectural strategy with rapid responses to emerging abuse vectors.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve reusable platform capabilities and services that enable other teams to detect and respond to emerging abuse patterns at scale
• Shape the platform architecture and technical strategy, balancing long-term scalability with rapid responses to emerging challenges
• Partner with Product, Analytics, Trust & Safety professionals, and Engineering teams to identify and address abuse patterns across the organisation
• Own problems end-to-end, from identifying opportunities and defining solutions to driving projects through delivery
• Make pragmatic technical decisions, balancing cost, latency, complexity, scalability and maintainability
• Drive architecture discussions, contribute to technical strategy, and improve engineering practices, processes and tooling
• Debug complex issues across data pipelines and distributed systems
• Continuously learn and share knowledge of industry best practices in abuse prevention and detection
• Be part of on-call rotation to ensure the reliability and availability of SoundCloud’s systems

Required skills

• Distributed systems
• Event-driven architecture
• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform
• AWS
• GCP
• ETL pipelines
• Microservices
• SQL
• NoSQL
• Container technologies

Nice to have

• API design
• BigQuery
• gRPC
• GraphQL
• Go
• Scala
• Abuse prevention
• Fraud detection
• Trust & Safety
• AI-assisted development

Qualifications

• Extensive professional software engineering experience

About the Company

SoundCloud is an artist-first platform founded in 2007 that empowers artists to build and grow their careers by providing progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400 million tracks from 40 million artists, the company is a multinational organization with offices in the US, Germany, and the UK.