Staff Software Engineer

Warner Music Inc. • Vancouver • 1m ago

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:

• Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future.

• Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.

• Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

Technology is one of the most important parts of our business. Whether it’s signing up new artists; ensuring we provide the right data to Spotify, YouTube, and other digital service providers; or helping artists use the latest AI tools and make thoughtful decisions with data-driven insights – technology plays an invaluable role in our success. The engineering team at Warner Music Group makes all of it a reality.

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

Your Role:

We’re seeking a talented Staff Engineer to join the Recorded Music Distribution Tech Org at Warner Music Group. In this role, you'll help power the technology that allows independent artists and labels to distribute their music through WMG’s global supply chain — reaching platforms like Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, and more. You'll play a key role in scaling systems that ensure music gets to fans quickly, securely, and reliably — from encoding and metadata management to digital delivery and analytics. This is an exciting opportunity for engineers who are passionate about music, data, and building elegant, scalable systems that serve millions of users.

Responsibilities:

Architect and lead the development of scalable, reliable, and secure backend services as well as customer-facing applications that power WMG’s global music distribution
Partner across disciplines with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver features that create measurable impact for artists, labels, and fans
Own complex initiatives end-to-end — from high-level architecture and hands-on implementation to deployment, monitoring, and long-term support
Elevate engineering standards by mentoring peers, conducting thoughtful code reviews, and championing best practices across the organization
Advocate for technical excellence in maintainability, performance, observability, and security throughout the entire software development lifecycle
Shape platform direction by influencing architectural strategy and evolving systems as the business grows and scales
Ensure operational resilience by participating in incident response and on-call rotations, driving root cause analysis, and implementing durable fixes
Foster a healthy engineering culture grounded in continuous learning, improvement, and psychological safety

Tech Stack You'll Work With:

Languages: TypeScript, Python
Frontend: React
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Pulumi, Docker/Podman
CI/CD & DevOps: GitHub Actions, Datadog, Sentry
Data & Storage: PostgreSQL, S3, Snowflake

About You:

You’re a seasoned engineer who thrives on solving complex problems at scale and shaping the future of technology within an organization. You bring deep technical expertise alongside the ability to mentor others, influence strategy, and elevate engineering standards across teams. You’re motivated by impact — building platforms that empower labels, artists, songwriters, and fans worldwide.
You have 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend or full-stack development
Experience leading end-to-end delivery of customer-facing applications in partnership with Product and Design
Leadership in driving architectural decisions and setting technical direction for large, distributed systems
Expertise in building and scaling production systems on cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, and performance optimization at scale
A track record of mentoring and growing engineers — including seniors — and leading through influence, not just authority
Excellent communication skills to align technical strategy with executives, cross-functional leaders, and engineering peers
A bias for ownership, clear decision-making, and delivering outcomes that move the business forward

Bonus Points For:

Experience in digital media, content pipelines, or the music/entertainment industry
Familiarity with Agile methodologies and DevOps culture
Expertise in security, compliance, or data governance for large-scale systems
Experience analyzing user feedback and behavior to improve products
Knowledge of user-centered design principles

As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

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WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), physical or mental disability, military service or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.