Overview
Senior Backend Engineer in SoundCloud’s Anti-Abuse Team. You will design and operate scalable, event-driven backend systems to keep creator–fan connections safe, building an abuse-prevention platform at global scale. You collaborate with Product, Analytics, and Trust & Safety to fight emerging abuse patterns, while owning end-to-end solutions from ideation to delivery. This role combines architecture work with rapid response to new abuse vectors, offering both strategic impact and hands-on problem solving.
Pay / Benefits
- flexible work culture
- office-based or remote collaboration
- mentorship and workshops
- enrichment opportunities
- diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
- employee resource groups
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve platform capabilities for detecting and responding to abuse at scale
- Shape platform architecture and technical strategy for long-term scalability and rapid responses
- Collaborate with Product, Analytics, Trust & Safety, and Engineering to address abuse patterns and communicate complex concepts
- Own problems end-to-end from opportunity identification to delivery
- Make pragmatic technical decisions balancing cost, latency, complexity, scalability, and maintainability
- Lead architecture discussions and improve engineering practices, tooling, and processes
- Debug complex issues across data pipelines and distributed systems
- Continuously learn and share best practices in abuse prevention and detection
- Participate in on-call rotations to ensure system reliability
Key requirements
- Extensive software engineering experience with distributed, event-driven backend systems at scale
- Hands-on IaC with Terraform and cloud environments (AWS or GCP)
- Experience building distributed data processing and ETL pipelines, metrics, and ML infrastructure
- Experience with microservices, SQL and NoSQL databases, containers
- Strong Go experience; Scala or another language is a plus
- Designing APIs and backend services for multiple client platforms
- Strong SQL skills for large datasets (e.g., BigQuery or similar)
- Knowledge of API patterns (gRPC, GraphQL)
- Nice-to-have: experience in abuse prevention, fraud detection, or Trust & Safety
- Nice-to-have: experience with AI-assisted development tools
- Ownership mindset and ability to navigate ambiguity
- Collaborative, team-first attitude and eagerness to learn
- Collaborative
- Proactive
- Strong communication
- Go
- Scala (or other language)
- BigQuery or similar SQL for large datasets
Senior Software Engineer - Anti-Abuse in London employer: SoundCloud
At SoundCloud, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that champions creativity and innovation in the music industry. Our flexible work culture fosters collaboration while offering extensive professional development opportunities, including a generous allowance for growth and a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. With unique benefits like a robust Employee Equity Plan, free German courses, and a supportive relocation package, we ensure that every team member feels valued and empowered to thrive in their role as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer.
