Lead Software Engineer

About Sony Music Entertainment

At Sony Music Entertainment, we fuel the creative journey. We’ve played a pioneering role in music history, from the first-ever music label to the invention of the flat disc record. We’ve nurtured some of music’s most iconic artists and produced some of the most influential recordings of all time.

Today, we work in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse roster of international superstars, developing and independent artists, and visionary creators. From our position at the intersection of music, entertainment, and technology, we bring imagination and expertise to the newest products and platforms, embrace new business models, employ breakthrough tools, and provide powerful insights that help our artists push creative boundaries and reach new audiences. In everything we do, we’re committed to artistic integrity, transparency, and entrepreneurship.

Sony Music Entertainment is a member of the Sony family of global companies.

Sony Music Product Design & Engineering is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our development team.

What you'll do:

• Work with a cross-functional team to build products that empower artists and record labels across the globe


• Contribute to all tiers of our architecture to produce high quality, robust user experiences


• Write clean, tested, maintainable code


• Work closely with product management to understand client requirements


• Design, communicate and execute a vision in collaboration with your team and other teams across the technology organization


• Participate in re-architecture, refinement and technical design of various systems


• Mentor more junior engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning

Who you are:

• Seeking 15-18+ years of software engineering experience in the following areas:


• Experience implementing distributed systems


• Experience in a scripting language (we use Python and JavaScript)


• Experience building frontend applications (we use TypeScript, React, and GraphQL)


• Experience with various database technologies and query languages (we use Neo4j, Kafka,MySQL, Snowflake, Elasticsearch, and more)


• Familiar with low-latency techniques to help improve page load time and reliability


• Experience with microservices, APIs, and related standards such as REST, and OAuth


• Comfortable with AWS Cloud technologies


• Experience using log analysis to investigate bugs and performance issues


• Experience writing unit and integration tests


• Experience working in an agile team

The Ideal Candidate

• Can mobilize teams around a vision and help lead execution of that vision


• Experience with data modeling and schema design of real world use cases


• Defines best practices and standards within the team and helps build tooling to make those easy to follow


• Proactive problem solving


• Experience optimizing tables, schemas and data structures


• Ability to determine sensible KPIs and optimize against them

What we give you:

• You join an inclusive, collaborative and global community where you have the opportunity to channel your passion every day


• A modern office environment designed to foster productivity, creativity, and teamwork empowering you to bring your best


• An attractive and comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life & disability coverage, and 401K + employer matching


• Voluntary benefits like company-paid identity theft protection and resources for pets, mental health and meditation resources, industry-leading fertility coverage, fully paid leave for childbirth or bonding, fully paid leave for caregivers, programs for loved ones with developmental disabilities and neurodiversity, subsidized back-up child and elder care, and reimbursement for adoption, surrogacy, tuition, and student loans


• Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community.


• The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt, and create what happens next


• Time off for a winter recess

Sony Music is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of age, disability, national origin, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, veteran or military status, marital and civil partnership/union status, alienage or citizenship status, creed, genetic information or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

The anticipated annual base salary does not include any other compensation components or other benefits that an individual may be eligible for. The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include as applicable, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.

New York Pay Range

$190,000 - $225,000 USD