Want To Work With Us?
We're always on the lookout for great people to join our small but kick-ass team. Here's a few positions we're currently looking for but feel free to contact us if you have other skills that you think would make SoundCloud even better.
Open Positions
Agile Project Manager (Berlin)
You are an experienced project manager with a focus on agile development and web applications. You are structured, love working on lists and timelines, and know how to prioritize in a fast-paced environment. You're a self-starter who needs minimal supervision, has strong organizational skills, and the ability to multitask.
You'll join one of the most competent web application teams in Europe as a project manager to help us building the best audio platform on the web.
Your key responsibilities at SoundCloud
- Help our development team prioritize the tasks at hand
- Work with our CTO on planning bigger changes to the platform
- Update our wiki, scm and ticket tracking system
- Write development status reports
Knowledge and skills required
- 5 years of technical project management experience
- Agile development skills (scrum, standups, etc)
- Solid high-level web application design skills
- Web technology experience
- Quality assurance skills
Valuable Additional Skills
- Interaction and usability skills
- Writing skills
- Knowledge of music production tools & techniques
Are you the woman (or man) we're looking for? Please send a resume with a covering letter to jobs@soundcloud.com.
Systems Administrator (Berlin)
You are a skilled system administrator with many years of experience in running high-traffic web sites. You know how to best build up a performant and secure web application stack all the way from routers to servers to load balancers. You're are flexible, down with startup life, keen on new challenges, and you're a team player. And oh, you love music!
You'll join one of the most competent web application teams in Europe as a systems administrator to provide technical support and administration to the ever-growing number of machines running soundcloud.com.
Your key responsibilities at SoundCloud
- Install software, apply patches, manage file systems, monitor performance and troubleshoot alerts from commercial, open source and locally developed monitoring tools
- Build and maintain a scalable storage cluster
- Define, document, and maintain the system and network architecture within soundcloud.com
- Identify and recommend future technology and architectural advancements to support soundcloud.com, technology migration, integration, and evolution
- Manage and lead hardware and software migration and upgrade efforts of varying size and complexity
- Work with our hosting providers to resolve issues and perform updates
- System failure analysis and recovery
Knowledge and skills required
- At least 5 years professional systems maintenance experience in a Unix environment, preferably Linux and/or Solaris
- Great shell programming skills
- Deep knowledge of all things networks
- Security auditioning skills
- Knowledge of server hardware and architecture
Valuable Additional Skills
- Experience with large-scale (1 petabyte+) storage systems
- Fluency in the nginx/Thin/MySQL/*nix stack
- Great SQL skills, including complex queries and optimization
- Experience with Ruby and preferably at least one more language
- Experience with Ruby on Rails or another web application framework
- Familiarity with agile programming methodologies
- Experience with Amazon Web Services
Are you the woman (or man) we're looking for? Please send a resume with a covering letter to jobs@soundcloud.com.
Back-end Web developer (Berlin)
You are an experienced web developer with knowledge of the latest web development tools and methodologies. You're are flexible, down with startup life, keen on new challenges, and you're an excellent team player. And oh, you love music!
You'll join one of the most competent web developer teams in Europe as a back-end developer to work on new features for the best audio platform on the web.
Your key responsibilities at SoundCloud
- Develop the back-end parts of new key features for the SoundCloud Rails-based platform
- Optimize the back-end of existing features for performance and stability
- Track down and resolve issues with the platform in close communication with our users
Knowledge and skills required
- Solid experience with Ruby and preferably at least one more language (C/C++ is a plus)
- Significant experience with Ruby on Rails and preferably at least one other web application framework
- Great SQL skills, including complex queries and optimization
- Familiarity with agile programming methodologies
- Fluency in the nginx/Thin/MySQL/*nix stack
Valuable Additional Skills
- Experience with test-driven development
- Experience with queue-based architectures and specifically RabbitMQ
- Knowledge of Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing API:s
- Sun Solaris Experience
- User interface design skills
- Writing skills
- Knowledge of music production tools & techniques.
Are you the woman (or man) we're looking for? Please send a resume with a covering letter to jobs@soundcloud.com.
Marketing Operations and Sales Analyst (Berlin)
You’re the conversion rate ninja who can’t stop thinking about Freemium.
You’ll come join us in the Berlin office and take responsibility for areas such as marketing and sales analytics, online sales, certain administrative duties and potentially search engine marketing (organic and paid).
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Marketing and Sales Analytics–mainly focused on web metrics, marketing campaign results and sales activity. This includes analyzing current usage, creating, executing and tracking campaigns and following up on results in order to maximize sales. You’ll also work with designing and refining our stats dashboard and use spreadsheets, multiple database sources and web metrics applications to generate additional reports.
- Inside Sales-provide existing users with product or service information and recommend upgrades to meet customer needs. Determine if special orders / packages are necessary and work with senior management to design / implement.
Additional areas of responsibility
- Analyze purchase behavior and ongoing seek to optimize sales.
- Assist with the development and ongoing maintenance of the data dashboard
- Provide input in product development and marketing initiatives
- Run ad-hoc reports as needed to support lead generation and sales activity
- Use pivot tables and external database sources to develop custom reports on an as needed basis
- Operational Support–facilitate and coordinate accounting (invoice management), budget tracking and report communication
- Potentially work with creating, maintaining and monitoring SEM (organic and paid) campaigns.
Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities Required
- You read Andy Chen’s blog.
- Proficiency with an array of office and web analytic applications (e.g. Excel, Powerpoint/Keynote, Google Analytics/AdWords) on an expert level
- Very organized, detail oriented and self motivated
- Ability to work on multiple priorities and/or projects simultaneously
- Excellent listening and communications skills, both verbal and written
- Independent problem-solving abilities and ability to meet reasonable deadlines
- Extra points if you have experience with SQL and feel comfortable running live database queries.
Are you the woman (or man) we're looking for? Please send a resume with a covering letter to jobs@soundcloud.com.
Marketing Intern (Berlin)
This is a great opportunity to get hands on experience working in a fast-paced start-up environment. Join one of the most exciting and most talked about companies working in digital music today and learn from a growing, talented and friendly team.
The ideal candidate
- Secure solution-driven communicator with excellent writing skills
- 100% fluent in English (we communicate in English, both internally and externally)
- Web-savvy digital native likely to spend way too much time on Twitter, Facebook and music or music tech blogs
- Self-motivated, organised, keen to learn and forward-thinking
- Knowledge of the music industry and its different players a plus
- Knowledge of html coding and making things look nice a clear plus
- Passion for music - both on and off the web
- You're a producer, band-member or just serious about a career working with digital music and not limited to a single genre
- Finally, and no compromising here, you're someone who gets things done
- Full time, duration flexible (though a minimium of 3 months would be preferred)
Your role
- Assist in responding to queries from existing users including labels and artists
- Take an active role in the SoundCloud community and evangelise online
- Perform day-to-day tasks related to SoundCloud and its users
- Assist in preparation of marketing materials, blog posts etc
- Assist in seeking out new opportunities and partnerships
Please send us a letter describing you as a person and why you think we should pick you to jobs@soundcloud.com. Don't forget to add links to your presences on the web. If you're interested in re-locating to Berlin that'd also be great opportunity to spend some time in one of the world's most vibrating cities for music.
Web Developer Intern (Berlin)
This is a great opportunity to come to Berlin and hack on cool web audio apps for a couple of months in a fast-paced start-up environment. Join one of the most exciting and most talked about companies working in digital music today and learn from a growing, talented and friendly team.
The ideal candidate
- Passion for music - both on and off the web
- Great programming skills (what language is less important)
- Self-motivated, keen to learn and forward-thinking
- You are a DJ, producer, band-member or just serious about a career working with digital music
Your role
- Build a cool feature or mashup on the SoundCloud platform
- Freedom to work on related side-projects
More information
- Office located in Berlin Mitte
- Possibility for additional remote working
- Minimum 2-3 days per week
- All agreed expenses covered including travel
- Possibility of longer term employment and/or part-time contract work for outstanding candidates
Are you the woman (or man) we're looking for? Please send a resume with a covering letter to jobs@soundcloud.com.
Internship (London)
SoundCloud is an online platform for music and audio professionals to share, send & collaborate on tracks. This is a great opportunity to get hands on experience working in a fast-paced start-up environment. Join one of the most exciting and most talked about companies working in digital music today and learn from a growing, talented and friendly team.
The ideal candidate
- Passion for music - both on and off the web
- Knowledge of the music industry and its different players
- Web-savvy digital native likely to spend too much time on Twitter, Facebook and music blogs
- Self-motivated, keen to learn and forward-thinking
- You're serious about a career working with digital music and looking for experience to get started or accompany your studies
Your role
- Perform day-to-day tasks related to SoundCloud and its users
- Respond to queries from existing users including labels and artists
- Assist in preparation of marketing materials, blog posts etc
- Take an active role in the SoundCloud community and evangelise online
- Assist in seeking out new users, opportunities and partnerships, this could be with artists, labels, pluggers, music bloggers etc.
Details
- Located in Shoreditch
- To start immediately
- 3 days per week
- Possibility for additional remote working
- Travel expenses covered
Are you the woman (or man) we're looking for? Please send a resume with a covering letter to jobs@soundcloud.com.
Are you the woman (or man) we're looking for?
Let us know!
