Senior Software Engineer, Backend & AI Platform - Sureel AI

The role

We are looking for a senior software engineer with deep experience in backend, platform, DevOps, and MLOps engineering.

You will help build the technical backbone of the Sureel platform, working closely with AI Research, Product, and the rest of Engineering to turn advanced technology into reliable enterprise products.

This is a highly hands-on role. You will design architecture and write code, owning systems from implementation through deployment and production. You should be comfortable moving between APIs, distributed systems, databases, cloud infrastructure, ML workloads, enterprise integrations, and, when needed, the frontend.

We use frameworks, managed services, and AI tools to move quickly, but we expect you to understand what is happening underneath them. You should be able to reason about why something works, where it could fail, and what to do when an abstraction breaks down.

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Senior Software Engineer, Backend & AI Platform - Sureel AI

Warner Music Group, Munich

The role

We are looking for a senior software engineer with deep experience in backend, platform, DevOps, and MLOps engineering.

What you need

You are a senior software engineer with strong depth in backend and platform engineering and the ability to work across the stack when needed.
You have personally designed, built, deployed, and operated meaningful production systems.
You are highly proficient in a modern backend language and comfortable working extensively with TypeScript/Node.js. Python experience is a bonus.
You understand the fundamentals behind databases, networking, concurrency, APIs, distributed systems, queues, caching, cloud infrastructure, and failure modes.
You can go beneath frameworks and abstractions when necessary rather than treating them as black boxes.
You have strong cloud, DevOps, and production infrastructure experience.
You understand ML systems well enough to work effectively with model serving, GPU workloads, inference, data pipelines, embeddings, evaluation, and MLOps.
You use AI as part of your engineering workflow and look for practical ways to automate and accelerate your work.
You reason from first principles and enjoy working through difficult technical problems.
You care about the product and business outcome, not just the technical implementation.
You are comfortable in a fast-moving startup environment where you will have significant ownership and ambiguity.

We'd love it if you also had Experience with GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, AWS DynamoDB or another NoSQL database, Meilisearch, vector search, distributed processing, GPU infrastructure, enterprise SaaS, developer APIs or SDKs, TypeScript/React, agentic development frameworks, or large-scale audio and media systems.

Most importantly, we are building a team with high standards and low ego. We value people who are kind, intellectually curious, generous with knowledge, willing to challenge ideas, willing to change their minds, and genuinely supportive of their teammates.

Sureel AI is an independent, federated company within Warner Music Group. We're committed to building a diverse team and to fair recognition for creators everywhere.

Senior Software Engineer, Backend & AI Platform - Sureel AI

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Senior Software Engineer, Backend & AI Platform - Sureel AI

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