Software Engineer in London

At Sony Music Entertainment, we fuel the creative journey. We’ve played the pioneering role in music history, from the first-ever music label to the invention of the flat disc record. We’ve nurtured some of music’s most iconic artists and produced some of the most influential recordings of all time. Today, we work in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse roster of international superstars, developing independent artists, and visionary creators. From our position at the intersection of music, entertainment, and technology, we bring imagination and expertise to the newest products and platforms, embrace new business models, employ breakthrough tools, and provide powerful insights that help our artists push creative boundaries and reach new audiences. In everything we do, we’re committed to artistic integrity, transparency, and entrepreneurship.

Sony Music's Product Design Engineering and Global Operations (PDEGO) Team is looking for a Software Engineer to join our D2C team in our King’s Cross office (London). Your work will power the technology that will support our artist, label, and merchandise stores worldwide.

What you’ll do:

• Work with a cross-functional team to build products that empower artists and record labels across the globe.
• Contribute to all tiers of our architecture to produce high quality, robust user experiences.
• Work closely with product management to understand client requirements.
• Participate in re-architecture, refinement and technical design of various systems.

Who you are:

We’re seeking a Software Engineer with the following experience:

• Strong experience implementing distributed systems and scalable data solutions.
• Proficiency in a scripting language, such as Python, for data pipeline development and automation.
• Deep experience with various database and data warehousing technologies and query languages (we use Neo4j, Kafka, MySQL, Snowflake, Elasticsearch, and more).
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining robust ETL/ELT data pipelines, including orchestration tools like Airflow, for large-scale data ingestion and transformation.
• Experience with data transformation tools such as dbt (data build tool).
• Familiar with techniques for data quality monitoring and ensuring data reliability.
• Experience with microservices, APIs, and related standards such as REST and HTTP.
• Comfortable with AWS Cloud technologies and cloud-native data services.
• Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools for managing and provisioning cloud resources.
• Experience using log analysis and monitoring tools to investigate data issues and pipeline performance.
• Experience writing unit and integration tests to ensure data integrity.
• Experience working in an agile team.

What we give you:

• You join a vibrant global community with the opportunity to channel your passion every day.
• A modern office environment designed for you, empowering you to bring your best.
• Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community.
• The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt and create what happens next.
• We give you the platform to champion positive change, with the opportunity to contribute to our social impact, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
• We provide an excellent range of benefits like private medical cover, a generous pension scheme, life assurance, income protection, plus loads of music industry perks.
• There’s also time off over winter break.

As an active part of a culturally and socially diverse society, Sony Music’s aim is that our workforce is diverse and inclusive. Sony Music is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity. We employ, retain, promote and otherwise treat all employees and job applicants according to their merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We apply this policy without regard to any individual’s sex, race, religion, origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition or disability.

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