Senior Backend / Data engineer

We are looking for a Senior Backend / Data Engineer to join Safe-and-Sound i.e. the centralized Safety team for PZN located within the AI Foundations Studio. We build state-of-the-art solutions to meet all safety needs for the studio. Our product suite covers a range of core assets on the platform (such as Search, home / podcast recommendations) and newer GenAI products (such as AI Playlisting, video trailers), tier 0 services like Recs Filtering, and production pipelines serving products like Search and Home. We work closely with squads in Tech Research and Trust & Safety to prototype and develop novel techniques to continually push the envelope and think more deeply about holistic content and user sensitivity.

We’re seeking either someone experienced in data development who has an interest in t-shaping into backend or the opposite around. You will build the backend/data systems that power our application, scale highly distributed systems serving our state of art solutions in production, and continuously improve our engineering practices. Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music.

What You'll Do
-Design tech specifications with product partners
-Write large-scale production quality data pipelines
-Architect, design, develop, deploy and operate services for the team that serve millions of users
-Be a technical leader within the team you work with and within the company in general
-Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team
-Be a leader of the client-wide backend/data developer community affecting and driving our architecture across the company
-Hack on what you want during regular hack days and bi-annual hack weeks

Who You Are
-Experience with delivering end-to-end production-quality data/backend solutions at scale
-Experience with designing tech specs and modular architectures for frameworks in ambiguous problem spaces
-Expertise with Ray, Hendrix, Scio, Java, Python, Dbt, BigQuery, Sql
-Experience/Interest in collaborating across multiple teams in various disciplines
-Experience/Interest in taking ownership in complex, ambiguous problem spaces

Workplace: Sweden
Start: Feb
Length: 6 months