Engineering Manager

SoundCloud is a next-generation music entertainment company powered by an ecosystem of artists, fans, and thriving communities. As one of the world’s most influential cultural platforms, SoundCloud holds a singular market position as both a music-streaming service with the largest catalogue of music, and an artist services and distribution business to help artists grow long-term, successful careers.

We are looking for an experienced leader to manage and grow our two engineering teams in the analytics engineering domain.

The teams build and maintain company-wide used, trusted data layers and analytical frameworks on top of business and user events end-to-end. You will drive the teams’ journeys to accelerate self-service data consumption and insight generation at SoundCloud by shaping the data models as well as the related needs in terms of ensuring data quality, data governance, performance and short delivery cycles. 

As a leader, you are not only passionate about your domain but also about enabling people and teams to work at their best. You actively promote a culture of diversity and inclusion, and you set up your team for success by fostering an environment of trust and healthy discussions.

About the role:

• Own the full scope of foundational analytics engineering at SoundCloud
• Enable your teams for iterative delivery with short cycle time
• Build and run high-performance teams based on agile best practices, trust, inclusion and a strong feedback culture
• Collaborate closely with the Product Manager to align value and feasibility
• Connect closely with a wide range of internal users and stakeholders (like engineers, product and business managers, analysts and data scientists)
• Be part of the foundational data organization’s leadership team: contribute to define and execute on goals, strategy, success metrics, roadmap
• Be a leader: enable collaboration, continuous learning, autonomy, and leadership in your team and its individual members

About you:

• You have already led teams, incl. hiring and people management (2+ years leadership experience)
• You are a role model for a strong feedback culture
• You are familiar with strategies to increase diversity and inclusion in engineering and have applied them before
• You have a solid background in data engineering and data modeling, and you are familiar with engineering best practices (e.g. test concepts, version control, continuous integration, clean code) 
• You are familiar with cloud based data environments (GCP preferred)
• You know SQL and are familiar with at least one programming language suitable for data analysis (Python preferred)
• Ideally, you have a solid analytical and data science knowledge (e.g. experience in time series analysis, prescriptive or predictive analytics)
• You are an agile practitioner and seek impact and outcome, not just output

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
• You can contribute to our Engineering Blog

Benefits:

• Not located in Berlin? No worries, we offer extensive relocation support including allowances, one way flights, temporary accommodation and, by partnering with Expath, on the ground support on arrival
• Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan
• Professional development allowance
• Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
• We offer free German courses at beginning, intermediate and advanced
• Various snacks, goodies and 2 free lunches weekly at the office! 

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Mission 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.