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title: 'Senior Software Engineer -  Anti-Abuse at SoundCloud'
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# Senior Software Engineer -  Anti-Abuse at SoundCloud

- **Company:** SoundCloud
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Posted:** 2026-09-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/soundcloud71/jobs/8857420002

## Job description

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 Senior Backend Engineer to join our Anti-Abuse Team, with a mission to keep connections between fans and creators safe and authentic, while building and operating an abuse prevention platform at global scale. The role can be based in either our Berlin or London office.

Our services are at the heart of SoundCloud’s user journeys. We operate a substantial suite of event-based services, combining specialised and generalised detection approaches to tackle complex architectural problems where scale, adaptability and fast decision-making are critical.

You’ll join a self-sufficient team passionate about abuse prevention, building scalable and adaptable solutions that stay ahead of emerging risks. The role combines long-term platform and architecture work with rapid response to new abuse vectors, giving you the opportunity to solve both strategic and time-sensitive engineering problems.

You’ll have significant end-to-end ownership to identify problems, shape solutions and drive projects from the ground up, working directly with engineering and T&S Professionals. If you’re creative, proactive and enjoy being the expert who turns complex problems into effective solutions, you’ll have plenty of room to make an impact.

## Key Responsibilities

- Build and evolve reusable platform capabilities and services that enable other teams to detect and respond to emerging abuse patterns at scale
- Shape the platform architecture and technical strategy, balancing long-term scalability with rapid responses to emerging challenges
- Partner with Product, Analytics, Trust & Safety professionals, and Engineering teams to identify and address abuse patterns across the organisation, driving alignment on solutions and communicating complex technical concepts clearly to diverse stakeholders.
- Own problems end-to-end, from identifying opportunities and defining solutions to driving projects through delivery
- Make pragmatic technical decisions, balancing cost, latency, complexity, scalability and maintainability
- Drive architecture discussions, contribute to technical strategy, and improve engineering practices, processes and tooling.
- Debug complex issues across data pipelines and distributed systems
- Continuously learn and share knowledge of industry best practices in abuse prevention and detection
- Be part of on-call rotation to ensure the reliability and availability of SoundCloud’s systems

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience designing APIs and backend services consumed by multiple client platforms
- Strong SQL skills for massive datasets (e.g. BigQuery or similar)
- Knowledge of different API communication patterns (e.g., gRPC, GraphQL)
- Strong professional experience with Go; experience with Scala or another language is a plus
- Nice to have: Experience in abuse prevention, fraud detection or Trust & Safety is a plus
- Nice to have: Experience using AI-assisted development tools and a strong intuition for their strengths, weaknesses, and emerging opportunities

## Experience and Background

- Extensive professional software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and operating distributed, event-driven backend systems at scale.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform and cloud-native environments such as AWS or GCP
- Experience in building distributed data processing and ETL pipelines, metrics and supporting ML infrastructure
- Experience with microservices, SQL and NoSQL databases, container technologies
- You care about the craft of software engineering: continuous delivery, defensive programming, automated testing, security, clean code principles
- You have a strong sense of ownership and are comfortable navigating ambiguity in fast-moving environments
- You bring a humble, collaborative, team-first mindset and an eagerness to learn and support your colleagues
- Bonus point: You love music

## About us

- We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London)
- We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home
- We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone’s voice, perspective and experience is respected and heard
- We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops and enrichment opportunities

Benefits: The Recruiter will supply the benefit points based on the location

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at SoundCloud

SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization; they help us lead what’s next in music by understanding and empowering our creators and fans, no matter their identity. We acknowledge the challenges in the music industry, and strive to influence an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute respectfully and thrive, especially the historically marginalized communities that many of our creators, fans and SoundClouders identify with. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment at SoundCloud for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or care-giver status.

At SoundCloud you can find your community or elevate your allyship by joining a Diversity Resource Group. Diversity Resource Groups are employee-organized groups focused on supporting and promoting the interests of a particular underrepresented community in order to build a more inclusive culture at SoundCloud. Anyone can join, whether you share the identity or strive to be an ally.

## About SoundCloud

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: SoundCloud is an artist-first, fan-powered music streaming and sharing platform that connects a global community of creators and listeners.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: Berlin, Germany (with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and London)
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Alexander Ljung, Eric Wahlforss

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Music Streaming, Audio Entertainment, Social Community
- Target customers: B2C (artists and fans), with a two-sided ecosystem serving both creators (independent and established) and listeners.
- Mission or purpose statement: "Empower artists and fans to share and connect through music."

## Products & Services
- **SoundCloud (Platform)**: A free and paid music streaming service available on mobile, desktop, and Xbox devices. It offers one of the largest music libraries globally, with over 200 million audio tracks and 40 million+ creators.
- **SoundCloud for Artists**: A suite of tools, services, and resources to help artists upload, promote, share, and monetize their music. This includes audience growth and direct fan engagement features.
- **SoundCloud Go / Go+**: Paid subscription tiers that offer ad-free listening, offline playback, and access to a deeper catalog of full-length tracks.
- **Repost by SoundCloud**: A distribution and monetization service for independent artists.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company). The company has raised **$550.2M in total funding** over 9 rounds.
- **Key Metric (Annual Revenue)**: Estimated at **$300.0 million** (per LinkedIn data). The company has approximately **900 employees**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed in the provided search results, but the company has raised significant venture capital. Key executives include Eliah Seton (CEO), Drew Wilson (COO, CFO), and Alexander Ljung (Chairman and Co-Founder).
- **Growth Signals**: Reports over **140 million monthly active users** (as of 2023). The platform hosts over **320 million music tracks** and operates in **64 countries**. It is widely recognized as the "leading voice of independence" in the music industry, having launched the careers of major artists like Billie Eilish and Post Malone.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Artist-First Ecosystem**: Unlike general streaming services, SoundCloud is purpose-built for independent creators, offering direct-to-fan engagement and discovery tools.
- **Massive & Unique Catalog**: Boasts "over 4x the catalog of any major platform," with a deep well of emerging and underground music that isn't available elsewhere.
- **Discovery Engine**: Known as a place where "discovery starts early," allowing fans to find new music and artists before they break into the mainstream.
- **Strong Community**: Positioned as the "world's most social music platform," fostering direct connections between artists and fans.

## Strategic Focus
- **Artist Empowerment**: Continuing to build tools and services that help artists build and monetize their careers.
- **Product Innovation**: Constantly evolving the platform with new features, driven by the Engineering, Product & Design (EPD) teams.
- **Global Expansion**: Operating in 190 countries and territories, with a focus on deepening its global community.
- **Two-Sided Growth**: Balancing the needs of both fans (discovery, social features) and creators (monetization, audience growth) within a single ecosystem.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Vibe**: Described as music and pet-friendly, with on-site industry events and snacks. The company emphasizes being "one team, one dream" and encourages employees to be their "authentic and true self."
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Diversity is described as "in our DNA." The company has active Diversity Resource Groups (Clouds of Color, Women at SoundCloud, Women in Engineering, QueerClouders) and a dedicated DEI team.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid model with four main office locations (Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, London) and numerous WFH offices.
- **Total Rewards & Perks**: Offers "flexible vacation up to 35 days" and a "Learning and Development benefit" with time and budget for professional growth (conferences, workshops, classes).
- **Engineering Culture**: The Engineering, Product & Design (EPD) team is positioned as the "backbone" and "leaders of innovation," with a focus on constant product updates and new features.
- **Open Roles (as of search date)**: Includes roles in Engineering (Lead Principal Software Engineer, Senior ML Engineer, Full Stack Engineer), Security (Principal Product Security Engineer), Sales (Associate/Strategist), and Executive (Business Partner to CEO).

## Sources
1. [SoundCloud About Us](https://soundcloud.com/company/about-us)
2. [SoundCloud Careers](https://soundcloud.com/company/careers)
3. [SoundCloud LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/soundcloud)
4. [SoundCloud Community Homepage](https://community.soundcloud.com/company/home)
5. [SoundCloud Job Board (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/soundcloud71/jobs/8559361002)

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