# Backend Engineer - Media Streaming

SoundCloud empowers artists, tastemakers and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is a creator-first platform helping artists build and grow their careers by providing them with the most advanced tools, services, and resources. With over 4x the music catalog of every other major streaming platform, spanning 40+ million artists across 190+ countries, SoundCloud is where emerging artists find their sound, hidden gems are discovered, and music culture is shaped in real time. SoundCloud is looking for a software engineer to join our Media Streaming Team, with a mission to operate a media streaming platform at global scale, delivering the best possible audio experience to creators, listeners, and partners alike. We are handling petabytes of data and gigabytes per second of traffic. You will join a tightly-knit team where you will help shape how millions of people experience music. Read about engineering at SoundCloud Key Responsibilities: Contribute to building, scaling and maintaining backend APIs and services that serve millions of users Collaborate closely with Android, iOS, web, and full-stack engineers to deliver seamless end-to-end media experienc

- **Id**: 863831
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/soundcloud-backend-engineer-media-streaming>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Berlin, Germany
- **Countries**: DE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-02T21:28:26Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T02:19:19Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 131
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4908
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible schedule, Gym membership, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Music Industry, Streaming & OTT Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 11948
- **Name**: SoundCloud
- **Domain**: soundcloud.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/soundcloud>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 104
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 56000
- **Max usd**: 133000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 14

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: yes
- **gRPC** — Optional: yes
- **Scala** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 130

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Germany** — Iso: DE; Kind: country
- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-13T11:56:26Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 31
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.696
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 130
- **Expected fill days**: 104
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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