HARMAN International · 5 hours ago
Sr. Principal Backend Engineer - Data Team - Roon
US_Home_Office
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$142K/yr - $209K/yr
15+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Technical Leadership and Mentorship: As a senior member of the team, you’ll provide mentorship and guidance to team members, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and excellence. You’ll set best practices and raise the bar for the quality of code, design, and overall development processes across the team.
Strategic Decision-Making: Drive critical technology decisions, assessing and implementing data storage, processing, and delivery solutions, ensuring they align with the company’s goals for scalability, performance, and reliability.
Architecting Data Solutions: Design and lead the implementation of complex data architectures to support scalable ingestion, processing, and delivery of music metadata.
Technical Versatility: Tackle a wide range of data engineering challenges, including: Data Ingestion and Processing: Architect, build, and optimize core catalog data ingestion pipelines, utilizing cloud infrastructure to handle large-scale datasets with reliability and efficiency. Machine Learning Integration: Collaborate on machine learning processes to power personalized recommendation systems. Optimize ML workflows and ensure they integrate seamlessly with broader data systems. Global Music Search: Develop and enhance a search infrastructure capable of indexing all released music globally. Ensuring low-latency, high-accuracy search capabilities that give users access to comprehensive music content across multiple sources.
Full Lifecycle Development: Lead the design, development, deployment, and operation of data-driven services, delivering high-impact music experiences. Take ownership of the entire lifecycle, from conception to monitoring and maintenance, ensuring that features are resilient, performant, and scalable.
Domain Knowledge Application: Acquire and leverage a deep understanding of musical content, genres, and metadata to enrich user-facing features and improve the overall data experience within our product ecosystem.
Ensure Data Quality and Reliability: Champion the quality and reliability of user-facing data. Establish processes and metrics to continuously monitor and improve data accuracy, consistency, and performance across our services.
Drive Innovation: Bring fresh ideas and drive continuous improvement within the team. Encourage experimentation and champion new approaches that can push the boundaries of our music metadata services.
Qualification
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Required
15+ years of experience in backend engineering, with a focus on data engineering, machine learning, or related fields.
Extensive experience in data architecture, including data storage, processing, and delivery.
Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and major cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP).
Proficiency in C# and Python, with the ability to write efficient, clean, and maintainable code.
Strong command of Unix-based environments and databases.
Practical understanding of networking fundamentals and protocols.
Commitment to sound engineering practices, including rigorous testing, performance optimization, resource management, and concurrency handling.
Demonstrated experience in maintaining high-performance, reliable services in production environments.
Proven track record of mentoring less-experienced team members.
Creative problem-solver, eager to bring new ideas and a passion for music to the team.
Preferred
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related STEM field.
Experience working with collaborative filtering, vector similarity, and personalized content delivery.
Experience in a Virtual or Remote work environment in any US time zone.
A passion for delivering top-notch audio experiences to users and an interest in the audio technology domain.
Benefits
Competitive wellness benefits and 401K Retirement Savings plan.
An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages career development opportunities.
Flexible work schedule with a culture encouraging work-life integration and collaboration in a global environment.
Professional development opportunities through HARMAN University’s business and leadership academies and extensive course catalog.
Tuition Reimbursement.
Access to employee discounts on world-class HARMAN products (JBL, Harman/Kardon, etc.).
“Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program.
Company
HARMAN International
Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, HARMAN (harman.com) designs and engineers connected products and solutions for automakers, consumers, and enterprises worldwide, including connected car systems, audio and visual products, enterprise automation solutions; and services supporting the Internet of Things.
10,001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2016-11-14Acquired· undefined
1986-11-21IPO· undefined
Leadership Team
Michael Mauser
Chief Operating Officer
Darrin Shewchuk
Vice President, Public Affairs and Communications
Recent News
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2024-11-15
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