Sony Music Entertainment · 1 month ago
Lead Software Engineer, Content
United States, New York, New York
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$200K/yr - $224K/yr
15+ years expSony Music Entertainment is a global leader in the music industry, committed to artistic integrity and innovation. They are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join their Content Product development team, where the role involves building products that empower artists and record labels, contributing to architecture, and mentoring junior engineers.
Digital EntertainmentMedia and EntertainmentMusic
Responsibilities
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
Write clean, tested, maintainable code
Work closely with product management to understand client requirements
Design, communicate and execute a vision in collaboration with your team and other teams across the technology organization
Participate in re-architecture, refinement and technical design of various systems
Mentor more junior engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning
Qualification
Required
15+ years of software engineering experience
Experience implementing distributed systems
Experience in a scripting language (we use Python and JavaScript)
Experience building frontend applications (we use TypeScript, React, and GraphQL)
Experience with various database technologies and query languages (we use Neo4j, Kafka, MySQL, Snowflake, Elasticsearch, and more)
Familiar with low-latency techniques to help improve page load time and reliability
Experience with microservices, APIs, and related standards such as REST, HTTP, and OAuth
Comfortable with AWS Cloud technologies
Experience using log analysis to investigate bugs and performance issues
Experience writing unit and integration tests
Experience working in an agile team
Preferred
Can mobilize teams around a vision and help lead execution of that vision
Experience with data modeling and schema design of real-world use cases
Defines best practices and standards within the team and helps build tooling to make those easy to follow
Proactive problem solving
Experience optimizing tables, schemas and data structures
Ability to determine sensible KPIs and optimize against them
Benefits
Medical, dental, vision, life & disability coverage
401K + employer matching
Company-paid identity theft protection
Resources for pets
Mental health and meditation resources
Industry-leading fertility coverage
Fully paid leave for childbirth or bonding
Fully paid leave for caregivers
Programs for loved ones with developmental disabilities and neurodiversity
Subsidized back-up child and elder care
Reimbursement for adoption, surrogacy, tuition, and student loans
Investment in your professional growth and development
Time off for a winter recess
Company
Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music is a music corporation owned and operated by Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate. It is a sub-organization of Legacy Recordings.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2019-05-05Acquired
Leadership Team
Christoph Behm
CEO GSA
Adam Cardew
Vice President
Recent News
2026-01-07
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