Principal Backend Engineer – Music Discovery Platform
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Principal Backend Engineer building HARMAN’s APIs and backend systems for music metadata, search, and recommendations. Remote role focused on scalable, high-performance data services.
Responsibilities:
- Architect and develop robust, scalable, and secure APIs 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 by 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 backend service performance for low latency and high availability
- Implement observability tools for monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure system reliability
- Drive technical innovation by evaluating new technologies and frameworks to improve development velocity and system capabilities
- Develop scalable backend systems powering HARMAN’s music metadata and discovery platform
Requirements:
- 10+ years of backend services development
- Strong understanding of modern backend development tools
- Strong proficiency in Node.js, Python, Go, or similar backend languages
- Deep understanding of API design, microservices architecture, and cloud-native development
- Hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, and Azure
- Expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, and serverless architectures
- Proficiency with automated CI/CD pipelines for continuous build and integration systems
- Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL and BigQuery
- Experience with caching strategies and message queues such as Kafka and RabbitMQ
- Availability for meetings and team interaction during typical continental US business hours
- Willingness to travel up to 5%, domestically and internationally
- Successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment
Benefits:
- Competitive wellness benefits
- 401K Retirement Savings plan
- Inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages career development opportunities
- Flexible work schedule
- 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
- Employee discounts on HARMAN products (JBL, Harman/Kardon, etc.)
- “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program
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