SoundCloud
Music Industry · Streaming & OTT Platforms
12open roles
$190kmedian advertised pay
Growinghiring pace, 63 of 100
Atruth index, 95 of 100
Overview
Discover and play over 320 million music tracks. Join the world’s largest online community of artists, bands, DJs, and audio creators.
How SoundCloud hires
Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
104 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
SoundCloud scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 104 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Hiring now
16
+3 posted in 30 days
Momentum
18/100
hiring for its size, a new city
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jan 6, 2016
On the Hacker News front page How the McLaren F1 Got Its Sound · 161 points
Jan 29, 2014
On the Hacker News front page Patch's new owner lays off staff in 1:39 conference call · 183 points
Jul 3, 2013
On the Hacker News front page Students Question the NSA at Recruiting Session [audio] · 241 points
Dec 28, 2012
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Nasdaq Dubstep
Jul 24, 2012
On the Hacker News front page Go at SoundCloud · 188 points
Nov 3, 2009
Released an app SoundCloud: Discover New Music · App Store
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$190k
Typical range
$75k – $325k
Open positions
9
9
Jobs
Junior
11.1%
Senior
55.6%
Staff
11.1%
Principal
11.1%
Architect
11.1%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $122k | $122k |
| Senior | 5 | $190k | $130k – $260k |
| Staff | 1 | $75k | $75k |
| Principal | 1 | $325k | $325k |
| Architect | 1 | $175k | $175k |
Highest paying role
Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer - Recommendations
$325k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at SoundCloud
By role, level and city, against the market · 9 jobs with pay
Visa sponsorship
1
H-1B filings in 12 months
$73k
Median offered salary
11
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Operations research analysts
1
In the register as SoundCloud, Inc., New York, NY
Other sponsors in the same field
Spotify 
Amazon 
Netflix 
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US Department of Labor · latest filing May 8, 2026 · Visa details by country
Growth
Hiring Momentum
63/100
Growing
Open positions
18
2 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
75 days
faster than 16% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Marketing
19% ▼
AI/ML
13%
Backend
13%
Communications
13%
Security
6% ▲
Leadership
6% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added GDPR to stack
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Added Braze to stack
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Added Linear to stack
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Added Oracle ERP to stack
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Added bandit to stack
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New location: London
Oct 2026
Added YouTube to stack
Oct 2026
Added Discord to stack
Oct 2026
Added Webflow to stack
Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Sep 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at SoundCloud over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
64
Postings analysed
18
Stack modernity
84/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL33%
Scala33%
Go33%
Python22%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js17%
PyTorch17%
TensorFlow17%
SwiftUI11%
Databases
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DynamoDB11%
Google Bigtable11%
Cloud & platforms
AWS28%
GCP28%
Kubernetes17%
Spark11%
AI & ML
LLM22%
Claude6%
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
3
Countries
3
Busiest office
New York
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New York
United States
HQ
New York
11 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 45% engineering $192k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, AI/ML, Backend
Berlin
Germany
Engineering / R&D
Berlin
6 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 83% engineering
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Mobile
London
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
London
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for Leadership
Los Angeles
United States
Regional office
Los Angeles