Senior Software Engineer - Anti-Abuse

The role

You will build and operate an abuse prevention platform at global scale. You will develop reusable platform capabilities and services to detect and respond to emerging abuse patterns.

What you will do

• Build and evolve reusable platform capabilities and services
• Shape the platform architecture and technical strategy
• Partner with Product, Analytics, Trust & Safety professionals, and Engineering teams
• Own problems end-to-end from identification to delivery
• Make pragmatic technical decisions regarding cost, latency, complexity, scalability and maintainability
• Drive architecture discussions and improve engineering practices, processes and tooling
• Debug complex issues across data pipelines and distributed systems
• Learn and share knowledge of industry best practices in abuse prevention and detection
• Be part of on-call rotation

Required qualifications

• Extensive professional software engineering experience
• Significant experience designing and operating distributed, event-driven backend systems at scale
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform and cloud-native environments such as AWS or GCP
• Experience in building distributed data processing and ETL pipelines, metrics and supporting ML infrastructure
• Experience with microservices, SQL and NoSQL databases, container technologies
• Experience with designing APIs and backend services consumed by multiple client platforms
• Strong SQL skills for massive datasets (e.g. BigQuery or similar)
• Knowledge of different API communication patterns (e.g. gRPC, GraphQL)
• Strong professional experience with Go

Nice to have

• Experience with Scala or another language
• Experience in abuse prevention, fraud detection or Trust & Safety
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools
• You love music

About the company

SoundCloud is an artist-first platform that empowers artists to build and grow their careers. It has over 400+ million tracks from 40 million artists.