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Sony Music Global Job Board · London, England, United Kingdom
About Sony Music Entertainment
At Sony Music Entertainment, we fuel the creative journey. We’ve played a pioneering role in music history, from the first-ever music label to the invention of the flat disc record. We’ve nurtured some of music’s most iconic artists and produced some of the most influential recordings of all time.
Today, we work in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse roster of international superstars, developing and independent artists, and visionary creators. From our position at the intersection of music, entertainment, and technology, we bring imagination and expertise to the newest products and platforms, embrace new business models, employ breakthrough tools, and provide powerful insights that help our artists push creative boundaries and reach new audiences. In everything we do, we're committed to artistic integrity, transparency, and entrepreneurship.
Sony Music Entertainment is a member of the Sony family of global companies.
Sony Music's Product, Design, Engineering & Global Operations (PDEGO) team is seeking a
Lead Software Engineer
to join our engineering team in our London office. Our PDEGO suite powers all of Sony Music's most critical business capabilities—ensuring monetization, data and analytics depth, marketing and music release at scale for artists across the globe.
As a technical lead, you'll help shape the architecture, engineering standards, and long-term technical direction of one of our product spaces at global scale. You'll work closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to modernize systems while mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence across the team.
What you'll do:
Lead the technical design and implementation of scalable software solutions supporting Sony Music's critical global B2B2C platforms.
Drive architecture decisions across distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, and platform services.
Partner closely with Product, Operations, and teams of stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into elegant technical solutions.
Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code while establishing engineering best practices across the team
Lead technical design sessions, architecture reviews, and modernization initiatives
Design resilient services and integrations with internal and third-party platforms
Champion application reliability, performance, observability, and operational excellence
Mentor engineers through technical coaching, code reviews, and architectural guidance
Identify technical debt and lead initiatives to improve scalability, maintainability, and developer productivity
Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive root cause analysis across distributed systems
Collaborate with engineering leadership to define the long-term technical roadmap for the platform you are focused on
Experience with various database technologies and query languages (we use Snowflake, MySQL, Neo4j, Kafka, OpenSearch, and more)
Comfortable with AWS cloud technologies
Experience using log analysis and monitoring tools to investigate production issues and improve reliability
Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence engineering and business stakeholders
Passion for solving complex technical problems and mentoring engineers
The ideal candidate
Deep understanding of software architecture, domain modeling, and scalable system design
Experience designing data models and optimizing schemas for complex business domains
Can mobilize engineering teams around a technical vision and lead execution across multiple initiatives
Establishes engineering best practices, coding standards, and development processes that improve quality and delivery
Strong systems-thinking mindset with the ability to balance immediate business needs against long-term platform investments
Demonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives without direct people management responsibility
Passionate about mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of technical excellence
Interest in music, technology, and building systems that directly support artists and creators
What we give you:
You join a vibrant global community with the opportunity to channel your passion every day
A modern office environment designed for you, empowering you to bring your best
Hybrid work environment: Our London office is designed for collaboration, offering a balanced hybrid setup (3 days in office / 2 days remote)
Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community
The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt and create what happens next
We give you the platform to champion positive change, with the opportunity to contribute to our social impact, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
We provide an excellent range of benefits like private medical cover, a generous pension scheme, life assurance, income protection, plus loads of music industry perks. There’s also time off over winter break
Equal Opportunities
As an active part of a culturally and socially diverse society, Sony Music’s aim is that our workforce is diverse and inclusive. Sony Music is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.
We employ, retain, promote and otherwise treat all employees and job applicants according to their merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We apply this policy without regard to any individual’s sex, race, religion, origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition or disability.
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Please note that applicants must be at least 18 years of age.
Details
| Company | Sony Music Global Job Board |
| Location | London, England, United Kingdom |
| Type | FULL TIME |
| Niche | tech |