Backend Engineer - Studio

key responsibilities include** - Build and operate agentic systems in production, from the multi-agent pipeline that turns video understanding into soundscapes to the tool-using conversational Assistant. - Backend engineering across the Python agent platform and the Go/GraphQL Studio API: Pub/Sub-driven workers, video ingest/transcoding/analysis, GKE workloads. - Build backend services across the Python agent platform and the Go and GraphQL Studio API, including Pub/Sub-driven workers, video ingest and analysis, and GKE workloads. - Own reliability and observability for systems whose output varies, through dashboards, alerting and the evaluations that make soundtrack quality measurable. - Ship iteratively behind feature flags and stay with the work through rollout and incident response. - Partner with frontend engineers, product managers and design on the Assistant launch and on the evolution of the video analysis platform. **Requirements** - Strong backend engineering with distributed-systems experience; Python and/or Go in production - Experience in building agentic systems that reached real users, such as LLM agents with tool use, multi-step pipelines or conversational assistants. - Experience in owning services in production on a major cloud platform (GCP or similar), covering event-driven architecture, observability and incident response. - Experience in taking a problem forward without being asked, and in challenging decisions openly and taking that challenge well. **It would also be music to our ears** - Audio/music technology or media processing (transcoding, streaming, loudness). - ML beyond consuming APIs: training/fine-tuning models, computer vision, or stream processing. - Video understanding / multimodal models. - Frontend fluency (TypeScript/React) **Equal opportunity employer** We believe that bringing people together from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives makes for a healthy workplace, a more successful business and a better world. We value diversity and encourage everyone to come and soundtrack the world with us. **Application** Ready to make the world _feel_ your work? Please apply, in English. [Apply for this Job](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/epidemic-sound/6ae8f205-8023-41e2-b725-cdd793e12c2e/application)