At Orfium, we’re building the future of music rights and royalties through technology and data. We are looking for a skilled Software Backend Engineer to join our rapidly growing teams. By joining the Data Platform team, you will be the driving force behind the tools and infrastructure that empower every domain team across the company, enabling dozens of engineers and analysts to build, deploy, and manage their data products.

This position heavily emphasizes cloud-based infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and modern software development best practices. This is a unique opportunity to grow your engineering skills while working with modern data tools like Airflow, DBT, Snowflake, and AWS, making it the perfect role for an engineer eager to champion DataOps principles and learn critical data engineering concepts.

Responsibilities

• Platform Maintenance & Modernisation: Design, maintain, and enhance platform services and tooling focused on data replication, pipeline orchestration, and containerized transformations. Aiming on technical debt reduction while strengthening the reliability of shared services.
• Observability: Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting for our core infrastructure and data workflows. You will help ensure our platform stays highly reliable, observable, and easy to troubleshoot.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Work alongside the team to develop and improve our cloud resources management using Python-centric or YAML based IaC frameworks.
• AI & Agentic Workflows: Explore and integrate AI agents to automate routine operational tasks and enhance the platform's self-healing capabilities.
• GitOps & CI/CD: Help create seamless, self-service workflows via GitHub Actions, enabling other teams to safely deploy their own infrastructure.
• Enablement: Help domain teams adopt new platform capabilities as they roll out, and turn recurring support questions into documentation or tooling.

Requirements

• 2-4 years of professional experience in backend software engineering, internal tooling, or platform development. 

• Proficiency in object-oriented development with a strong preference for Python (experience in Ruby, Java, or C# also considered)
• Excellent understanding of Version Control (e.g., Git) and exposure to CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions).
• Experience with Infrastructure As Code concepts and tools (e.g., AWS CDK & Cloudformation,Terraform, Pulumi)
• Strong experience with cloud service providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) and Docker containerization.
• Hands-on SQL experience and an understanding of relational databases or modern cloud data warehouses. 
• Understanding of Modern System Architectures, Design Patterns, Data Structures, and distributed systems.
• A proactive, collaborative mindset with a strong appetite for learning new technologies in the DataOps space. 

Nice to Have

• Experience with system observability, logging, and monitoring tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).

• Experience designing and maintaining ETL/ELT workflows, using tools like Airflow for orchestration and DBT for transformation and modeling.
• Hands-on experience with modern data warehousing platforms, ideally Snowflake (or Databricks).
• Familiarity with modern web frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Django). 
• Love for music.

Benefits

💰 Competitive salary package and participation in our Stock Options plan
🏠 Hybrid work model with flexibility to support your lifestyle
🏥 Comprehensive private health and life insurance coverage
🌴 Extra paid time off to recharge and take care of yourself
💻 The latest tech equipment to support your productivity and creativity
🌍 A collaborative, inclusive, and international work environment

About Us 

We are a global technology leader helping artists, songwriters, and copyright owners solve the most complex problems in the music industry through advanced rights management and data solutions. At Orfium, you’ll join a passionate, international team of developers, designers, scientists, and music lovers, all working together in a flexible, hybrid environment where innovation, openness, and ownership are at the heart of everything we do. We are looking forward to meeting with you!

EEO / Accommodation

At Orfium, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates—regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. If you require any accommodations during the application or interview process, please let us know. We’re here to ensure you have a comfortable and fair experience every step of the way.