Principal Backend Engineer

Requirements

• Architect and develop robust, scalable, and secure APIs for music catalog, recommendation, and search.
• Design data models and manage integrations with third-party music metadata providers, streaming services, and analytics platforms.
• Lead backend engineering efforts, setting coding standards, reviewing code, and mentoring junior engineers.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams to define API contracts and deliver seamless user experiences.
• Optimize performance of backend services, ensuring low latency and high availability.
• Implement observability tools for monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure system reliability.
• Drive technical innovation, evaluating new technologies and frameworks to improve development velocity and system capabilities.

Benefits

• Competitive wellness benefits
• 401K Retirement Savings plan
• Flexible work schedule
• Professional development opportunities
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee discounts on HARMAN products
• Be Brilliant employee recognition and rewards program