WHO WE ARE:
Splice is a creative platform for people who make music. Serious producers choose Splice Sounds to bring their ideas to life. A subscription to Splice inspires and accelerates creative success for digital music creators with an industry-leading catalog of sounds and samples and an expanding AI stack. With a rent-to-own marketplace of DAWs and plugins, the Splice experience seamlessly integrates into any music production workflow, regardless of DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). Via Splice, an unparalleled team of sound designers and sample creators are fueling the success of a growing global community of chart-topping producers, students, and DIY creators.
HOW WE WORK:
At Splice, DISCO is a rallying cry for collaboration, accountability, and unity within our organization; Direct, Inclusive, Splice Together, Creator Centric, and Optimistic. Our shared success depends on our ability to support one another, work well together, and communicate directly. By embracing flexibility and a unified approach, we can navigate anything that’s thrown at us.
Splice embraces a culture of remote work. You’ll see your colleagues showing up from across the US and the UK. In order to keep us working well as a team, we have regular communication, including Town Halls, departmental all-hands and get-togethers.
When you join Splice, you join a network of colleagues, peers, and collaborators. Are you ready?
Senior Backend Engineer - ML CoreThe Role:
You will help define the architecture and drive implementation changes across multiple backend services that power Splice’s next generation products. You will translate those large-scale architectural changes into manageable, incremental outcomes that provide ongoing customer benefits. You will help optimize our search infrastructure and create mechanisms for safe and rapid ML model productionalization. You will advocate for system designs and APIs that make “The right thing, the easy thing.” You will drive solutions that are both technically and organizationally scalable.
As a software engineer at this level:
- You include customer experience when discussing engineering solutions and tradeoffs
- You investigate and provide clarifying guidance for areas of significant uncertainty
- You own delivering complex projects that span multiple domains and teams
- You identify areas for team- and organization-wide improvement and propose solutions
- You regularly seek mechanisms to ensure that deliverables meet or exceed quality standards
- You provide mentorship and give candid and respectful feedback for how to improve our engineering practices
- You help manage cross-team commitments, track their progress and relate that to the overall delivery roadmap in order to help prioritize the team’s work
- You are flexible and readily adapt to change
- You enjoy looking for personal growth opportunities and are continuously looking for ways to improve
Qualifications:
- You have worked with Elasticsearch, optimizing data representations, queries, and clusters to produce high-quality customer experiences
- You have relevant work experience building and evolving production software using Go and Python
- You have experience deploying and managing ML models in production environments
- You have several years working with RDBMS such as MySQL or PostgreSQL and crafting performant SQL queries
- You have experience leveraging SaaS and cloud provider primitives to their fullest potential
- You work backwards from the customer experience
- You share our vision to enable artist creativity and continue our path becoming the most iconic music company in the world
- You are comfortable having build-versus-buy tradeoff conversations
- You’re self-directed towards generating excellent work outcomes
- You ensure shared understanding about the definition of done
- You have a bias towards action and experimentation
- You are focused on quality over quantity
- You are comfortable, or even prefer working across technical stacks
- You are outcome-focused and consider how we will know whether our deliverables meet customer expectations
- You communicate clearly and effectively with technical and non-technical audiences
- You are comfortable writing, deploying, evolving, and deleting code
Our Tech Stack
- Go, Python, TypeScript/NodeJS, GraphQL, Docker, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis
- NX, Jenkins, CodeBuild, Github Actions, Datadog
- Terraform, AWS, ECS Fargate, Lambda
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience with data warehousing or data marts
- Deep knowledge of ElasticSearch and search/indexing technologies
- Experience developing ML models (eg: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras) for personalization
- Experience with Twirp/gRPC
- Experience with a strongly typed language (eg: Rust, C++, Scala, Java, C#)
- Experience working with Data Engineering
- Experience working with open source data management software (eg: Amundsen, Apache Superset, Apache Doris)
SPLICE BENEFITS (US ONLY):
- Compensation & Equity: Competitive pay with annual reviews and equity opportunities.
- Time Off: Unlimited PTO to recharge and thrive.
- Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
- Retirement Savings: 401(k) plan with immediate vesting and company match.
- Parental Support: 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for non-birthing parents, and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents.
- Flexible Work Options: Work remotely or connect at our office hubs and creative spaces worldwide.
- Professional Growth: Annual learning budget, leadership programs, and team ambassador opportunities.
- Community & Connection: Inclusive events, team meet-ups, and vibrant Employee Resource Groups.
The national pay range for this role is $185,000 - $200,000. Individual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience.
Splice is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Splice provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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