Senior Backend Engineer, Product and Infra

Udio is a company focused on creating impactful product experiences, and they are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build the systems and services that power their platform. The role involves designing APIs, implementing content-matching systems, and collaborating with various teams to ensure the infrastructure is reliable and efficient at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain application-level data models that organize rich content into canonical structures optimized for product features, search, and retrieval
• Build high-reliability ETLs and streaming pipelines to process usage events, analytics data, behavioral signals, and application logs
• Develop data services that expose unified content to the application, such as metadata access APIs, indexing workflows, and retrieval-ready representations
• Implement and refine fingerprinting pipelines used for deduplication, rights attribution, safety checks, and provenance validation
• Own data consistency between ingestion systems, application surfaces, metadata storage, and downstream reporting environments
• Define and track key operational metrics, including latency, completeness, accuracy, and event health
• Collaborate with Product teams to ensure content structures and APIs support evolving features and high-quality user experiences
• Partner with Analytics and Research teams to deliver clean usage datasets for experimentation, model evaluation, reporting, and internal insights
• Operate large analytical workloads in BigQuery and build reusable Dataflow/Beam components for structured processing
• Improve reliability and scale by designing robust schema evolution strategies, idempotent pipelines, and well-instrumented operational flows