Principal Backend Engineer
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Principal Backend Engineer leading scalable backend systems development for HARMAN's music discovery platform. Focusing on API design, performance optimization, and technical innovation within music 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, 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.
Requirements:
- 10 + years of backend services development
- 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
- Hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, and Azure
- Expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, and Serverless architectures.
- Proficient with automated pipelines for continuous build and integration systems.
- Experience with databases (e.g., Postgre SQL, Big Query), 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.
Benefits:
- 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.
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