Lead Principal Software Engineer/Systems Architect

About the role

SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400+ million tracks from 40 million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud.

SoundCloud is looking for a rare technical hybrid: A systems architect to own the long-term blueprint of our core application API and platform, and a SWAT Team Lead who can dive in and execute targeted projects. A key strategic partner to the CTO, you are the person who finds the signal in the noise of a legacy codebase, conceives a better overall plan, and then personally leads the 'strike team' that delivers the changes. This is a role for an engineer who is

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