Senior Backend Engineer - Content Protection

About the role

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Content Protection team, you will design and operate the core systems that safeguard Epidemic Sound’s enterprise customers from copyright and licensing risks. You’ll work in a fast‑moving, cross‑functional environment that blends data, machine learning and legal expertise to keep music licensing bullet‑proof.

Key responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain high‑throughput services and monitoring for content protection and rights enforcement.
• Develop pipelines that ingest, parse, and analyze massive usage data from platforms such as YouTube and TikTok.
• Continuously query and improve data quality, spotting weak signals and implementing fixes.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to integrate detection models and provide actionable insights to business operations.

Required profile

• 6+ years of backend software engineering experience, especially with distributed systems.
• Proven ability to design and scale services handling large data volumes.
• Strong architectural mindset with end‑to‑end ownership.
• Comfortable working in an agentic, autonomous engineering culture.

Required skills

• Python
• Go
• Java
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Kafka
• YouTube API
• TikTok API