Backend Engineer - Client Infra

Om jobbet

Join our global force of 500+ innovators, blending the latest in tech with the greatest in soundtracking, from our Stockholm HQ to offices in London, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Oslo, and Seoul. We're an industry leader with a startup mentality. We take what we do seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. Creating and collaborating to transform the sound of streaming, content, and culture. Come join us - and let the world feel your work.

The role

As aBackend Engineer, you will play a crucial role inEpidemic Sound's Client Infra team, a core part of the Foundation area responsible for building the technology platform that powers the company's backend services. Your work will directly strengthen the developer experience, improve productivity across engineering, and accelerate the company's shift from a legacy monolith to a modern, scalable service architecture.

This role is central toenabling developers to deliver new features consistently, safely, and at high velocity. By designing and building modern platform components, workflows, and integrations, you help ensure that engineering teams across the company can rapidly innovate - an essential capability in a market reshaped by generative AI and evolving content creation needs. Your contributions directly advance Client Infra's mission: providing robust, reusable, best-practice tooling and infrastructure for Go-based backend services.

You will joinClient Infra, a team ofsix engineerswithin the Foundation area, which also includes SRE and the Data Platform. The team is focused on:

• Building and maintaining a solid technology foundation for all backend teams.
• Providing reusable service templates and best-practice workflows.
• Ensuring developers have excellent local development tooling and ownership insights.
• Owning critical infrastructure components such as authentication systems, CDN, and caching.

Requirements:

• Past experience with developing in Go.
• Experience as a heavy user of developer portals like Backstage, Port, etc.
• Experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).

Soft skills:

• Adaptability & Resilience - Thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with a rapidly evolving business domain.

• Problem-solving Mindset - Proactive in tackling legacy challenges and continuously improving tools, workflows, and processes.
• Collaboration & Cross-functional Communication - Works effectively with teams across the organization; comfortable teaching, supporting, and guiding others.

It would be music to our ears if you have:

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), infrastructure as code, and Kubernetes is beneficial as the team builds on top of these technologies.
• Experience in a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or DevOps role.

• Experience with Python is a bonus, as the company has some legacy Python code.

Equal opportunity employer

We believe that bringing people together from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives makes for a healthy workplace, a more successful business and a better world. We value diversity and encourage everyone to come and soundtrack the world with us.

Application

Ready to make the world feel your work? Apply now by clicking the link below! We embrace a hybrid model but love collaborating in person, so we spend the majority of our time in the office.

Welcome to Tune In - our behind-the-scenes video series where we sit down with the brilliant minds shaping the sound and story of Epidemic Sound. In this episode Oscar Höglund, CEO and Co-Founder of Epidemic Sound sits down with Rikard Herlitz, Chief Tech Officer where he shares what makes developers most happy, what velocity means to him and how Epidemic Sound is in the sweet spot when it comes to AI.

Thinking about joining us? Tune in - and see if we sound like your kind of vibe.

Locations HQ (Stockholm) Remote status Hybrid Employment type Full-time