Engineering Manager, Anti-Abuse

Job Description

SoundCloud is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead its Anti-Abuse Systems team. This team is responsible for maintaining a safe, authentic, and fair environment on SoundCloud's platform. The Engineering Manager will guide a team of engineers and ML practitioners in building scalable abuse detection pipelines, real-time classifiers, and content moderation tooling.

The role involves technical leadership, people management, and cross-functional collaboration. The ideal candidate enjoys solving adversarial problems and delivering impactful products.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of backend and machine learning engineers.
• Own the end-to-end architecture for abuse prevention pipelines.
• Set and drive the technical strategy and roadmap.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Support team members through mentorship and career development.
• Maintain high engineering quality standards.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and guide estimation and prioritization of backlogs.
• Take pragmatic decisions around scope, design, and trade-offs.
• Communicate proactively across the organization.

Requirements:

• Strong technical lead with early engineering management experience.
• Hands-on experience as a software developer.
• Knowledge of abuse prevention, content moderation, or fraud detection.
• Experience with detection systems, rule-based pipelines, or ML models.
• Engineering background in backend architecture, data platforms, microservices, or cloud.
• Strong collaboration skills.
• Track record of hiring, mentoring, and growing diverse technical teams.

SoundCloud offers:

• Extensive relocation support for those not located in Berlin.
• Creativity and Wellness benefit.
• Employee Equity Plan.
• Generous professional development allowance.
• Fertility and Family Building program.
• Flexible vacation and public holiday policy.
• Free German courses.
• Various snacks, goodies, and free lunches when at the office.