Backend Engineer
Warner Music Group7 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Write clean, maintainable backend code in Java or Python.
- Upgrade application frameworks to address security patches, support, and performance improvements.
- Debug and resolve system errors identified through automated or manual testing.
- Monitor production systems, improve observability, and proactively resolve issues.
- Lead root-cause analyses for outages and implement corrective actions.
- Conduct performance and scalability testing, identify bottlenecks, and optimize systems.
- Partner with business and operations users to troubleshoot, document, and resolve issues.
- Execute and automate data queries, AWS resource modifications, and job restarts.
- Participate in on-call rotations and respond to high-priority production incidents.
- Enhance GitHub Actions and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
- Maintain runbooks, knowledge bases, and technical documentation while driving process automation and tooling improvements.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of software development experience, ideally with Java or Python backend development.
- Experience with relational databases including Oracle and PostgreSQL, plus SQL query writing.
- Strong communication skills for bridging technical and non-technical discussions.
- Ability to collaborate with distributed teams across multiple time zones.
- Preferred experience with enterprise systems and modernization efforts.
- Preferred hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience for managing cloud resources, ideally in AWS.
- Preferred ability to diagnose and resolve issues across desktop, network, and web layers.
- Preferred experience with on-call work, incident management, and meeting SLA commitments.
About Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group is a publicly traded music company that operates global recorded-music labels and the Warner Chappell publishing catalog. It monetizes music through streaming and download partnerships, physical sales, licensing and sync, and artist and label services (including ADA and WMX). Headquartered in New York and controlled by Access Industries, WMG’s roster spans labels such as Atlantic and Warner Records, with operations in 70+ countries.