We're Looking For a Staff Software Engineer – AI & Automation
We're building a new Productivity Engineering team, and you'll be the founding engineer of an internal platform that lets non-engineers build, deploy, and host agents and applications. This means your decisions will shape the architecture, the developer experience, and the culture of the team for years to come.
Your key responsibilities include:Operating with an AI-first mindset, you will leverage AI, agents and technical logic to:
Architect and build the foundational platform that enables business users across the organisation to create, deploy, and manage internal applications and agents without requiring engineering support.
Own the end-to-end design of this platform, from infrastructure and hosting to the self-service interfaces and guardrails that make it safe and approachable for non-technical users.
Establish the patterns, integrations, and building blocks that connect to core enterprise systems and allow business teams to move quickly without compromising security or compliance.
Work closely with business stakeholders to translate operational needs into platform capabilities, ensuring the systems you build are not only technically sound but genuinely adopted.
Operate as a senior technical voice within a small, high-autonomy team, helping set architectural direction and raising the bar for how the team designs and delivers.
The Blueprint: Extensive track record as a Senior, Staff, or Principal Engineer, with a proven history of owning greenfield platforms, distributed systems, and backend scalability patterns.
Infrastructure & Platform: Deep production-scale GCP (compute, networking, IAM, managed services), Kubernetes, and Helm (designing for multi-tenancy).
Languages: Proficient in Go (primary), with comfort across the stack in TypeScript and/or Python.
Developer Experience (DX): Hands-on experience with GitOps, environment provisioning, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and enterprise security/IAM (SSO/Okta integration).
AI Integration: Experience integrating LLMs and agentic systems into production backends (Vertex AI, Gemini, OpenAI, MCP, or similar).
Product Mindset: Strong understanding of API design and a proven ability to design for non-technical users—you care about onboarding, UX, documentation, and what "easy to use" means in practice.
Way of Working: Highly autonomous, comfortable with high ambiguity, and able to clearly present technical trade-offs to non-engineering stakeholders.
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.
Skills Required
- Extensive track record owning greenfield platforms, distributed systems, and backend scalability patterns
- Production-scale GCP (compute, networking, IAM, managed services)
- Kubernetes (production experience)
- Helm with multi-tenancy design experience
- Proficient in Go
- Comfortable with TypeScript and/or Python
- Hands-on experience with GitOps and environment provisioning
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
- Enterprise security and IAM experience, including SSO/Okta integration
- Experience integrating LLMs and agentic systems into production backends (Vertex AI, Gemini, OpenAI, MCP or similar)
- Strong API design skills and product mindset for non-technical user DX, onboarding, and documentation
- Highly autonomous, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to present technical trade-offs to non-engineering stakeholders
What We Do
Epidemic Sound has transformed the soundtracking experience for global brands and professional creators, with an expansive catalog of world-class music and sound effects that's seen and heard over 2.5 billion times a day around the globe. Providing a direct license model that comes with all rights included and next-generation soundtracking tools, Epidemic Sound empowers creators to unlock more feeling in everything they create and share their stories with the world. Epidemic Sound continuously enriches its world-class catalog of music by teaming up with artists, composers, and producers to create tracks spanning all genres, while supporting them financially and creatively.
Why Work With Us
Join our global force of 500+ innovators, blending the latest in tech with the greatest in soundtracking, from our offices in Stockholm, NYC and LA. We’re an industry leader with a startup mentality. We take what we do seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Come join us and the world will feel your work.
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