Senior Software Engineer

Wmg · Toronto, Ontario / Vancouver / Alberta

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses: 
 
• Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future. 

• Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.

• Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

Technology is one of the most important parts of our business. Whether it’s signing up new artists; ensuring we provide the right data to Spotify, YouTube, and other digital service providers; or helping artists use the latest AI tools and make thoughtful decisions with data-driven insights – technology plays an invaluable role in our success. The engineering team at Warner Music Group makes all of it a reality. 

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

Your role:
 
We are seeking a Senior Software Application Engineer to lead the architectural evolution of some of our most critical business systems. In this role you will analyze existing system and data design, identifying critical areas for optimization - spanning scale, performance, resilience, and cost - and leading efforts to execute that vision.

If you love music, data, and building world-class systems that scale, this role might be right for you.

Here you’ll get to:

  • 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

    • About you:

  • 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

    • Software pay context

    Based on 7,138 disclosed Software salaries on RoleSuite, the role pays a median of $157K/year, with most offers between $123K and $199K (10th–90th percentile: $101K–$235K).

    This posting lists $112K–$152K, below the $157K market median.

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