Senior Software Engineer, Data Operations - PDEGO

What you'll do:

• Build and maintain monitoring systems, alerting pipelines, and health dashboards that give the team real-time visibility into platform status
• Take an active role in production incident response - help triage, contribute to resolution, communicate clearly to stakeholders, and document post-mortems
• Identify and build automation for repetitive operational work - access requests, backfill coordination, and pipeline health checks - to improve team throughput over time
• Work on Snowflake infrastructure through Terraform - contributing to access controls, cost monitoring, and warehouse configuration
• Collaborate with Data Engineering on system design and code reviews with reliability and operability in mind
• Write and maintain runbooks, incident response playbooks, and platform documentation
• Support analyst enablement by improving platform reliability, query performance, and data accessibility across global teams
• Suggest and implement improvements to team tooling, processes, and operational practices

Who you are:

• 6-8+ years in software engineering with meaningful experience in SRE, platform engineering, or data infrastructure roles
• Proven record of contributing to production incident response, including stakeholder communication and post-incident analysis
• Deep understanding of monitoring and observability: alerting design, SLO definition, dashboards, and root cause analysis across distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake or equivalent data warehouse at an operational level - access management, cost governance, performance tuning
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code; Terraform experience strongly preferred
• Strong debugging skills across cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, and distributed systems
• Familiarity with data pipeline tooling (Fivetran, dbt, Airflow, or equivalent)
• AWS experience preferred
• Clear, proactive communicator - comfortable translating technical incidents to business and analyst stakeholders without jargon
• Motivated to reduce toil through automation and scalable process - not just absorb operational load, but systematically eliminate it
• Interested in music and learning the intricacies of the music business

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 
• 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

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