Senior Software Engineer

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses: 

• Curiosity : We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future. 

• Collaboration : Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.

• Commitment : We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

Technology is one of the most important parts of our business. Whether it’s signing up new artists; ensuring we provide the right data to Spotify, YouTube, and other digital service providers; or helping artists use the latest AI tools and make thoughtful decisions with data-driven insights – technology plays an invaluable role in our success. The engineering team at Warner Music Group makes all of it a reality. 

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

Your role:

We are seeking a Senior Software Application Engineer to lead the architectural evolution of some of our most critical business systems. In this role you will analyze existing system and data design, identifying critical areas for optimization - spanning scale, performance, resilience, and cost - and leading efforts to execute that vision.

If you love music, data, and building world-class systems that scale, this role might be right for you.

Here you’ll get to:

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  Reimagine and implement the future of tech for the music industry



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  Work as part of a dynamic and highly effective team



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  Own the creation and delivery of highly innovative products



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  Implement maintainable solutions with high quality and reliability that can scale as our business continues to grow and expand



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  Learn and grow as a professional through close collaboration with your team members and engineering leaders, and by being part of culture of continuous improvement and learning



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  Provide mentorship to other engineers, fostering their professional growth and success



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  Respond to incidents and perform on-call duties with an eye towards root cause fixes and improvements

About you:

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  You have an undergraduate or graduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other related field



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  You have at least 6 years of experience in backend or full stack development



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  You have a deep knowledge of AWS or other large cloud computing environment



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  You have strong distributed systems skills: How to make things fast and scalable, how to measure things (e.g. latency, throughput)



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  You have strong operational excellence best practices: Testing, monitoring, paging, and incident management



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  You have a strong understanding of developing APIs, backend services, databases, data pipelines, data warehousing 



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  You have built or developed large-scale data processing pipelines and/or large, high-availability dimensional datastores



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  You have a high sense of ownership and a drive to deliver impact in a fast-paced, evolving, ambiguous environment



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  You have experience in building projects with good abstractions and clean architecture



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  You have strong debugging skills and the ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues



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  You have a drive to grow, learn, and master the craft of software development

$112,000 - $152,000 a year

Compensation : This position offers a base salary of $112,000 - $152,000 CAD. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for a performance based annual bonus.

Vacancy Status : This posting is for an active, existing vacancy.

As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

Love this job and want to apply?

Click the “Apply” link at the top of the page, or apply directly with your LinkedIn. Applying with LinkedIn will import all of the information you put in your profile, but will still allow you to upload a resume and cover letter.

Don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.

Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.

WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), physical or mental disability, military service or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.