Lead Systems Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: Remote

Lead Systems Engineer 

Songtradr UK/EUROPE 

VACANCY: FULL-TIME

Company Profile

Songtradr is the world’s largest B2B music technology company, offering end-to-end music licensing, rights management, and direct-to-fan solutions. Through strategic acquisitions like MassiveMusic and Bandcamp, Songtradr empowers music creators and enables brands to connect with audiences through the power of music.

Learn more at www.songtradr.com.

Team

Bandcamp is the world’s largest online record store and music community where passionate fans discover, connect with and directly support the artists they love. With the majority of revenue going directly to artists, Bandcamp fosters a communal experience with music discovery, where artists and fans support each other in a vibrant ecosystem. Bandcamp artists and labels release and sell a broad range of music products, including digital and physical records, vinyl, apparel and merchandise.

Learn more at
https://bandcamp.com/
and follow on
LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok. 

About the Platform Team

Our Platform Team helps to ensure that Bandcamp's production infrastructure and website meet our availability, security, and performance goals. We work closely with our feature development teams to meet those goals, assisting them in getting their code to production and helping them understand how their code works and performs once it's deployed.

Job Description

Bandcamp is seeking a software engineer with a background in systems and infrastructure to help us manage our production systems, and in turn help independent artists around the world stay connected with their fans. You'll work on automation, tooling, monitoring, and other behind-the-scenes code, as well as the design, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of our infrastructure. You have a strong Linux background, experience with cloud infrastructure, proven troubleshooting skills, and a willingness to be on-call.

Our responsibilities include primary incident response, infrastructure maintenance, monitoring, tooling and automation improvements, third-party integration management, cloud security, and operational support. We are also the primary developers for many core internal libraries and several back-end systems, in areas such as code deployment and media processing.

Main Job Duties

• Design, build, and maintain core libraries and systems-focused software, such as our service framework, internal tooling, and automation
• Maintain our existing infrastructure technology stack, built on Linux, Ruby, MySQL, Zookeeper, HAProxy, Fastly, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, and Grafana
• Work towards modernizing our technology stack in Google Cloud
• Research new technologies and determine how they can help Bandcamp meet its goals
• Support developers in bringing their code to production, and in understanding how it works and performs once it's there
• Be part of an on-call rotation, providing primary incident response for outages
  

Desired Skills & Experience

• Server-side development experience, in Ruby or a similar language (e.g.: Python, Java)
• Experience planning, implementing, and maintaining systems engineering projects
• Strong written communication skills, including real-time written communication (e.g.: text chat)
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Experience with building and maintaining Linux and cloud-based systems
• A desire to share your knowledge and experience with the rest of the team

Our Three Core Values

Lead with Music

It’s our compass and our passion. We champion creativity by putting artists, brands and fans first, balancing artistic integrity with bold commercial ambition.

Perform as One Band

United by purpose and trust. We aim high, knowing that collaboration, community, and doing it for the right reasons drives success for everyone.

Own Your Voice

We listen deeply and speak honestly. We value time, welcome diverse perspectives, and keep the rhythm of open, transparent communication alive.

Employment

Full time. What do you get in return? Inspiration, knowledge, career development, on top of our financial package. You’ll also be working with an international bunch of remarkable musically-infused individuals. 

On this note, please know that Songtradr is an equal opportunities employer. Applicants will not be excluded on the grounds of sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, race, marital status, diversity of thought, disability, age, religion, belief, or sexual orientation. And if you need any specific adjustments to be made throughout our recruitment process, please feel free to let us know. 

We look forward to hearing from you!