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# Senior Backend Engineer - Content Protection at Epidemic Sound

- **Company:** Epidemic Sound
- **Location:** Stockholm, Sweden
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/epidemic-sound/9d752b68-2d88-4222-99ca-8251293d7138

## Job description

Join our global force of 400+ innovators, blending the latest in tech with the greatest in soundtracking, from our Stockholm HQ to offices in London, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, Oslo, and Seoul. We’re an industry leader with a startup mentality. We take what we do seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Creating and collaborating to transform the sound of streaming, content, and culture. Come join us, and let the world feel your work

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a crucial role in our Content Protection team. Your role will be to design and implement systems that protect our enterprise customers from copyright litigation and licensing risks.

Our mission is simple: paying customers never lose sleep over music licensing. You will help our customers identify and mitigate licensing liabilities, proactively identifying and mitigating licensing risks, ensuring our licensing promise remains bulletproof. By identifying and resolving licensing risks across every social channel, you will give top global brands absolute confidence and control over their music usage. You will be joining a highly collaborative, cross-functional engineering team, working closely with Data and Machine Learning functions, as well as our legal and business operations teams, to ensure we have the precise data needed to enforce rights.

Your key responsibilities include:

- End-to-End Ownership: Architect, build, and maintain the critical infrastructure and monitoring alerts for our content protection and rights enforcement services.
- User Generated Content Monitoring & Optimization: Build high-throughput services that continuously fetch, parse, and analyze massive volumes of usage data from platforms like YouTube to monitor compliance.
- Data Analysis & Autonomous Improvement: The pipeline we’re building is complex and still evolving, and we expect you in the data itself — querying it, spotting where signals are weak or cases are being missed, and deciding what to do about it. You’ll pick up problems no one has scoped yet, make the case for the fix, and ship it.
- Cross-Functional Defense: Collaborate with ML engineers to develop advanced detection models and arm business operations with actionable data.

## Requirements

- 6+ years of experience in backend software engineering with a focus on designing and scaling distributed systems.
- Proven experience building high-throughput services and data pipelines capable of handling massive volumes of data.
- Proficiency in modern backend languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java) and cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS).
- Strong architectural mindset with the ability to take full ownership of a system from design to deployment.
- Comfortable with agentic engineering

It would also be music to our ears if you have experience working with UGC platform APIs (like YouTube or TikTok), streaming technologies (like Kafka), or have previously collaborated with machine learning teams on data-driven detection tools.

## Equal opportunity employer

We believe that bringing people together from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives makes for a healthy workplace, a more successful business and a better world. We value diversity and encourage everyone to come and soundtrack the world with us.

Application Ready to make the world feel your work? Please apply, in English.

## About Epidemic Sound

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Epidemic Sound is a Stockholm-based soundtracking platform that provides a fully licensed, 100% IP-owned catalog of music and sound effects for content creators, brands, and broadcasters.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Unicorn status, last known funding round in 2022)
- **Headquarters**: Stockholm, Sweden
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: David Stenmarck, David Noppa, and Hjalmar Winbladh

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Music licensing, audio technology, creator economy
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C — individual content creators (YouTubers, TikTokers), production companies, broadcasters, global brands, and enterprises
- **Mission**: To soundtrack the world — making music and sound effects effortless to find, use, and license, while creating fair opportunities for artists.

## Products & Services
- **Epidemic Sound Platform**: A subscription-based catalog of over 50,000 music tracks and 200,000 Hollywood-grade sound effects, all 100% IP-owned and globally cleared. Users can add music to videos without copyright claims, hidden fees, or takedowns.
- **AI-Powered Tools**: Includes Soundmatch (AI-powered search), Studio, Adapt, Assistant, and Voices — AI-enhanced workflows for faster, smarter soundtracking.
- **Integrations & Plugins**: Native plugins for Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, plus integrations with Canva, TikTok, and YouTube.
- **Soundly (Acquired 2024)**: A leading sound effects platform, now integrated into Epidemic Sound’s ecosystem.
- **Enterprise & Broadcast Services**: Audiovisual licensing solutions for production companies, broadcasters, and global brands.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Achieved Unicorn status in 2022 after an investment round led by EQT Growth and Blackstone Growth. Exact current valuation not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Net sales grew 29% in 2024; the company became cash-flow positive for the first time in 2024. Music is heard over 3 billion times daily on YouTube and TikTok.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: EQT Growth, Blackstone Growth, Alecta, AMF, TIN Fonder, Creandum. Partners include TikTok, Adobe, Canva, and DaVinci Resolve.
- **Growth Signals**: Acquired Soundly (leading sound effects platform) in 2024; signed artist mentors Johnny Marr and Richie Hawtin; recognized by Financial Times as one of Europe’s long-term growth champions 2025; 29% net sales growth in 2024; cash-flow positive for the first time in 2024.

## Competitive Advantages
- **100% IP-Owned Catalog**: Epidemic Sound is the only company in this space that fully owns its music, with zero affiliate tracks — meaning no copyright claims or takedowns for users.
- **Scale & Reach**: Music is heard over 3 billion times daily on YouTube and TikTok; 1.6 billion monthly plays on music streaming platforms.
- **Artist-First Model**: Pays artists upfront ($1,500–$8,000 per track), splits streaming royalties 50/50, and offers quarterly performance bonuses — attracting top-tier talent like Johnny Marr, Richie Hawtin, and Jordin Sparks.
- **AI-Integrated Platform**: AI is built into the core product (Soundmatch, Studio, Adapt, Assistant, Voices), not layered on top, giving users faster, smarter workflows.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI & Innovation**: Deepening AI integration across the platform to enhance creator workflows while maintaining transparency and fair artist compensation.
- **Global Expansion**: Growing presence across offices in Stockholm, London, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, Oslo, and Seoul.
- **Enterprise & Brand Growth**: Expanding enterprise sales and partnerships with broadcasters, production companies, and global brands.
- **Artist Ecosystem**: Continuing to sign high-profile artists and mentors, and maintaining a 50/50 royalty split model to attract and retain top musical talent.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Described as a "people-first organization" with a startup mentality inside an industry leader. Core values: "Rebel Without a Pause," "Let’s Celebrate," "Be a Force for Good," "Come Together."
- **Work Model**: Hybrid workspace — employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work. Offices in Stockholm, London, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, Oslo, and Seoul.
- **Perks & Benefits**: Six weeks of paid vacation for all full-time employees globally; yearly wellness grant; generous parental leave top-up; competitive pensions; insurance with free counseling services; gym discount; weekly running club; covered bike parking with showers.
- **Engineering Culture**: Annual Hack Week where tech teams block five full days for innovation and collaboration; 250+ product and tech employees; emphasis on blending human creativity with AI.
- **Recognition**: Great Place to Work certified (two consecutive years); Financial Times Europe’s Long-Term Growth Champions 2025.

## Sources
1. [Epidemic Sound Careers Page](https://www.epidemicsound.com/careers/)
2. [Epidemic Sound Corporate - About Us](https://corporate.epidemicsound.com/about-us/this-is-epidemic-sound/)
3. [Epidemic Sound Annual Report 2024 (PDF)](https://corporate.epidemicsound.com/files/Main/21928/4132587/epidemic-sound-annual-report-2024.pdf)
4. [Built In - Epidemic Sound Careers & Perks](https://builtin.com/company/epidemic-sound)
5. [LinkedIn - Epidemic Sound](https://www.linkedin.com/company/epidemic-sound)

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