Software Engineer

Job Description

As a Software Engineer, you will be a critical early member of the rapidly growing data management and platform development team. You will be responsible for evolving, scaling, and productionizing the core platform codebases to enable additional features/use-cases and improve overall reliability. Additionally, you'll work with technical & business stakeholders to design new web-apps on top of the platform, and then lead the technical implementation of these designs. More broadly, you'll work in a collaborative Agile environment with involvement in all aspects of the software development lifecycle and act as a champion of the latest in software engineering best practices. You will primarily develop on Google Cloud Platform and other technologies such as BigQuery, Airflow, Python, SQL, Spark/PySpark, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes.

How you'll CREATE:
• Work with data scientists, data engineers, machine learning engineers, & DevOps engineers to identify & implement improvements to the core platform codebase to enable new features & improve overall reliability
• Work with senior business, product, & technical stakeholders to design and – importantly – assess the technical feasibility of new web-apps built on top of the existing platform.
• Work with the technical team & external contractors to develop & execute the implementation plan for new web-app builds
• Act as a code champion/leader across the team, ensuring & continuously improving the team's code development best-practices
• Build and Deploy systems on Google Cloud to enable new features/capabilities.
• Proactively suggest, plan, and integrate new tools and methods to improve productivity/efficiency, scale system designs, and reduce costs

Bring your VIBE:
• 2+ years' experience as a software engineer, or equivalent, designing large data-heavy distributed systems and/or high-traffic web-apps
• Experience in at least one programming language (Python strongly preferred)
• Hands-on experience designing & managing large data models, writing performant SQL queries, and working with large datasets and related technologies
• Experience designing & interacting with APIs (REST/GraphQL)
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure (GCP preferred)
• Experience in DevOps processes/tooling (CI/CD, GitHub Actions), using version control systems (Git strongly preferred), and working in a remote software development environment
• Strong analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills, have a hunger to learn, and the ability to operate in a self-guided manner in a fast-paced rapidly changing environment

Preferred
• Experience using infrastructure as code frameworks (Terraform)
• Experience using big data tools such as Spark/PySpark
• Experience using or deploying MLOps systems/tooling (eg. MLFlow)
• Experience in pipeline orchestration (eg. Airflow)
• Experience in an additional programming language (JavaScript, Java, etc)
• Experience developing UI/UX with modern tools (React, etc)
• Experience using data science/machine learning technologies

Perks Playlist:
• Competitive Compensation Package including Salary, Benefits and Generous 401k Savings Plan
• Paid Time Off – Paid Holidays, Two (2) paid weeks for ''Winter Break'' season, Wellness Fridays
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance
• Employee Developmental Support
• Annual Gym Reimbursement Package
• Pet Insurance, plus much more!

Disclaimer: This job description only provides an overview of job responsibilities that are subject to change.

All UMG employees are currently required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or provide proof of a negative PCR or Antigen test before entering any Company offices unless they have been approved for an exemption or unless prohibited by applicable law.

Universal Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an E-Verify employer.

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Job Category:
Technology

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rv3w00-3-145-42-94-42 in your application.