Principal Backend Engineer

Details

• Architect and develop robust, scalable, and secureAPIs for music catalog, recommendation, and search.
• Design data models and manage integrations with third-party music metadata providers, streaming services, and analytics platforms.
• Lead backend engineering efforts, setting coding standards, reviewing code, and mentoring junior engineers.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams to define API contracts and deliver seamless user experiences.
• Optimize performance of backend services, ensuring low latency and high availability.
• Implement observability tools for monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure system reliability.
• Drive technical innovation, evaluating new technologies and frameworks to improve development velocity and system capabilities.
• 10+ years of backend services development
• Technical Skills: Strong understanding of modern backend development tools.
• Strong proficiency in Node.js, Python, or Go or similar backend languages.
• Deep understanding of API design, microservices architecture, and cloud-native development
• Cloud Platforms: Hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, and Azure
• Deployment Technologies:Expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, and Serverless architectures.
• CI/CD: Proficient with automated pipelines for continuous build and integration systems.
• Experience with databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, BigQuery), caching strategies, and message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Familiarity with music metadata standards, recommendation systems, or audio streaming APIs is a plus.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or another related field.
• Experience with machine learning pipelines or recommendation engines (strongly desired)
• Experience working with machine learning workloads in production
• Experience working with audio music streaming services
• Knowledge of music theory, audio fingerprinting, or digital signal processing.
• Familiarity with C# and .NET based technologies.
• Contributions to open-source projects or technical blogs.
• A passion for delivering top-notch audio experiences to users and an interest in the audio technology domain
• Position is 100% Remote
• You must be available for meetings and team interaction during typical continental US business hours.
• Be willing to travel up to 5%, domestically and internationally.
• Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment
• Competitive wellness benefits and 401K Retirement Savings plan.
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages career development opportunities.
• Flexible work schedule with a culture encouraging work-life integration and collaboration in a global environment.
• Professional development opportunities through HARMAN University’s business and leadership academies and extensive course catalog.
• Tuition Reimbursement.
• Access to employee discounts on world-class HARMAN products (JBL, Harman/Kardon, etc.).
• “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program.