Senior Software Engineer m/f/d

Company Description

LIVE THE MUSIC WITH US

From a pioneer tech start-up created in 2007, Deezer has become one of the first French unicorns and the second largest independent music streaming platform in the world.

At sixteen years old, we’re only just coming of age. Now listed on #EuroNext, Deezer is a rapidly-growing, cutting-edge player in the music streaming market. If you want an environment where you can make your voice heard and be at the forefront of music and tech, look no further!

We believe music is all about embracing the things that make us different.

Deezer is a vibrant community that celebrates uniqueness, diversity and individuality, and thrives on collaboration.

Our international and passionate teams pride themselves on being at the forefront of the music experience, going beyond streaming and helping the world to Live the Music. We’re constantly evolving alongside our customers, partners, artists and employees — striving to make Deezer the most personal and innovative streaming service in the world.

Ready for an electrifying journey? Apply now and do your part in bringing extraordinary music experiences to people’s lives!

**Join Us**

Job Description

Joining a team of engineers working in the Innovation division, you will work hand-in-hand with Researchers and Data Scientists to help develop and productionalize cutting-edge solutions and algorithms.

You will help build and maintain the highly qualitative production environment that involve: 

• Processing a catalog of hundreds of millions of tracks and scale algorithms to serve millions of users worldwide

• Implementing, deploying and maintaining critical machine learning prediction engines for real time performance

• Mentoring less senior engineers on these same tasks

What you will do:

• Develop and maintain our current and future audio analysis pipeline, where all the audio files in the Deezer catalog is analyzed by cutting-edge machine learning models, implemented in Python and running in Kubernetes 

• Develop and maintain out current and future data-science APIs in Scala (search, recommendation, business intelligence), and our online prediction endpoints.

• Optimise our ML-OPS platform : our data stack for data-scientists and researchers to train, test, deploy and monitor their machine learning models.

• Provide tools and technical support for data-scientists and researchers to work on their respective projects efficiently

• Actively participate in building the roadmap for the upcoming milestones. This implies interacting with stakeholders from other teams, understanding business needs, and proposing appropriate state of the art architectures

• Follow-up and mentor the less senior membres of our group, so it continues to be a tight-knit, effective, competent, enthusiastic and always growing team of engineers

Qualifications

This role is excellent for a person with:

• 5 years of work experience on similar positions

• Experience at scale in production in microservices architecture and MLOps;

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, REST/RPC/GraphQL APIs in distributed high performance production environments

• Experience with messaging solutions like Kafka or RabbitMQ in high performance production environments

• Experience with SQL and NoSQL RDBMS

• Hands-on experience with modern deployment, provisioning and monitoring tools (Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD, Kibana, Grafana, to name a few)

• Fluent in at least one language among Python, Scala or Java;

• Hands-on experience with cloud environments (Azure, Google or Amazon)

• Strong critical thinking and curiosity, and ability to communicate them efficiently 

• Fluent in English or French.

If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you’d still be a great fit for this role in your application!

Additional Information

At Deezer, you can be your true self as we believe that #everyvoicematters. We strive to build an inclusive culture and foster a diverse environment. Because we care and want to ensure each employee feels welcome and safe at work, we continuously focus on fighting biases and helping diverse teams work well together through multiple learning opportunities, e-learnings and workshops right from the onboarding :

• Regular Diversity & Inclusion internal and external talks

• Dedicated employee work streams on Gender equity, Ethnicity & Culture, Disability and LGBTQ+

• Multiple e-learnings and mandatory training sessions for all managers

• English and French courses for all, so that everyone can connect and feel included

Beyond benefits like health insurance, transportation, we offer you extra perks like:

• A Deezer premium family account for free

• Access to gym classes

• Deezer parties several times a year and drinks every thursday

• Allowance for sports, travelling and culture …

• Meal vouchers

• Great offices always located in dynamic and attractive districts, whether in Paris, London, Berlin or Sao Paulo!

• Hybrid remote work policy

If you want to learn more about life and culture at Deezer, please visit our Welcome to the Jungle page here !