Warner Music Group is all about our people. We are one global company made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. It is the mission of every member of the WMG team around the world to create a nurturing environment for artists, songwriters, and fellow employees at every stage of their career. We strive to set WMG apart from the rest of the industry by embracing a philosophy of innovation that is part of our company's DNA. Consider a career at WMG and be a part of one of the biggest forces in music today. WMG's top priority is the safety and wellbeing of its team members, artists and songwriters across the globe. In response to COVID-19, WMG is fully committed to helping its people balance their home and life commitments with flexible working options, virtual wellness sessions, and more. WMG strives to maintain a COVID-free workplace. To that end, being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 is a condition of employment for all US new employees, prior to the commencement of employment. If you are hired, you will be required to provide proof of your vaccination as part of your new employee onboarding process, subject to our legal obligation to make reasonable accommodations in certain limited circumstances. Job Description: 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 know that each talent makes our collective bolder and brighter. We are guided by four core principles that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses: Music is Everything: Music is our passion, and we can never get enough. Tastes, trends, and tech will change, but great artists and songwriters will always be our driving force. Global Growth, Local Expertise: Music is a global language. Through communication and collaboration, our success can come from anywhere and translate everywhere. Innovation and Insight: Pushing the boundaries requires the best information and the boldest imagination. We use both to create the future. Empowered by People: Like the artists we serve and the music they make, our differences make us stronger. This is a place where every talent can belong and build a career. We remain committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We know it fosters a culture where you can truly belong, contribute, and grow. We encourage applications from people of any age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, and any other characteristic or identity. 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. A little bit about our team: ADA is WMG’s distribution arm for independent labels and DIY artists. The Product & Integration team is responsible for the technology that services our global community of independent artists & labels. We build tools that artists & labels use to run their careers and businesses. Our platform ensures that creative content is distributed out to the market accurately, on time, and set up to industry and artistic standards. We must constantly innovate to keep up with the music industry and provide opportunities, revenue, & promotion tools to the indie community. Your role: This role is a unique opportunity to join one of the fastest-growing independent music distributors as one of the team’s first engineers, reporting to the Head of Technology. You will execute on the ADA product vision & roadmap, while helping to build our team and engineering culture. You will work with engineers and data scientists on the WMG Global Tech team to ensure alignment on product strategy, architecture, design, and development between ADA and WMG. You will get to deliver consistent, high-quality products that are adopted by dispersed global teams and help transform the ADA Tech Team through shaping of best practices, data architecture, and creating new products & processes that help us deliver a high volume of new music to market. Here you’ll get to: Be a founding member of ADA’s Tech team & help build our team’s culture around data and engineering Be responsible for delivering a best-in-class distribution product & carry out the data architecture & engineering vision for ADA and our DIY product, Level Shape ADA’s data practices while partnering with WMG’s Global Tech leadership on mission-critical projects. Design & build workflows and data infrastructure to transform the entire organization into a data-informed product team. Maintain processes, architecture, & documentation for instrumenting all of ADA’s products with analytics events. Ship high-quality code daily, innovating on hard-to-solve problems of the music industry Productionalize WMG’s leading data science models around musical works & metadata to create value and opportunities for the independent music community. Evaluate product challenges and work with stakeholders across WMG’s Global Technology department, WEA Operations teams, and ADA to arrive at the best-fit solution About you: You have 7 years of experience on an analytics or engineering team, 3 of those years as a Data Engineer You have experience working with distributed systems (e.g., Cloud, Cloud-native, Containers, Streaming/Event-based, Data and Analytics) You have designed and built sustainable and scalable infrastructure from a wide variety of data sources and have defined foundational Architectural best practices and data modeling standards for a consumer or enterprise product You are comfortable working in a wide range of advanced visualization tools including Tableau and Looker You are experienced working with Data Warehouse and Data Lake solutions, including Snowflake, AWS, Hadoop, Kafka, etc. You are an expert in modern data pipelines, and know the advantages of using ETL vs ELT pipelines in different scenarios You are proficient with code development and testing You are knowledgeable about DevOps practices and frameworks such as Github, AWS Code Deploy/Build/Pipeline, Serverless Framework, etc. You have experience with data governance and are familiar with SOX/PCI/GDPR compliance You have experience using scripting languages such as Python to build ML pipelines You are an expert in both relational databases, query performance tuning (SQL), and also NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc. You can be scrappy and innovative when working with tight timelines, but you also advocate for long-term code quality You have experience working with a high-performing team of PMs, engineers, and designers You enjoy mentoring and building collaborative coding environments You are organized and you’re great at documentation & diagrams You have a passion for independent music and helping artists at all stages of their careers About us: As the home to Asylum, Atlantic, East West, Elektra, 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 catalogue of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Redefining what it means to be a music company in the 21st century, our consumer brands include trend-setters like UPROXX, Songkick, HipHopDX, and EMP. We’re the home to WMX – the next generation services division that connects artists with fans and amplifies brands in creative, immersive, and engaging ways – and Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) – the ground-breaking global distribution company for independent artists and labels. Together, we are Warner Music Group: Music With Vision & Voice. Love this job and want to apply? Click the “Apply” link at the top of the page, or apply directly with your LinkedIn. Applying with LinkedIn will import all of the information you put in your profile, but will still allow you to upload a resume and cover letter. Don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG. Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too. #LI-Hybrid Job Posting Range $110,000 to $180,000 Annually Job Posting Ranges are included for NYC based and 100% remote roles where talent can be located in NYC. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as work experience and business needs. The pay range is subject to change at any time dependent on a variety of internal and external factors. WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. 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