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Rennes, Fr

* Data-driven evaluation of multiple bot detection vendors* Implementation of the transition to a new bot detection vendor, in particular for plays fraud detection. Development and deployment of strategies to decide when to perform bot detection at all in order to keep vendor costs low* Architecture and migration to a Anti-Abuse-as-a-Platform Team, enabling product teams to own and implement abuse prevention on their features. Enabling the entire tech organization to scale Anti Abuse

Berlin, Germany

* Improving the Anti Abuse systems from their specialized use cases to a generalized verdict system, allowing to protect arbitrary endpoints with abuse prevention and bot-detection, with a particular focus on authentication integration.* Response to abuse and security incidents, account takeovers and play fraud

Berlin, Germany

* Exploration, long-term planning and implementation of a shift from the internal, Ruby on Rails based subscription and billing system to a vendored subscription management.* Continuous maintenance and improvement of SoundClouds Payments stack, from monitoring and alerting, systems observability to 0-downtime MySQL schema migrations* Migration of SoundClouds central entitlements system to be more reliable and flexible through a major architectural overhaul, eliminating prior reliability, consistency and auditability issues. Being on the critical path of virtually all requests to SoundCloud, development on this high-load, high-stakes, low-latency system involved advanced rollout and caching strategies.* Implementation of student discounts including vendor integration for verification purposes.* Mentoring and training of more junior colleagues

Berlin, Germany

A DevEx-focussed role, reducing the constant cost of product backend engineering.* Maintained and modularized JVMKit, SoundCloud's Finagle-based library used by about 80% of backend services, mostly in Scala* Migrated all major API backends to said library while enabling independent product teams to migrate forward through internal advocacy, demos, blog posts and pairing* Added a JVMKit module for Kafka consumers, reducing the time to create a production-ready consumer from hours or days to minutes. The implementation brought together ideas from various scattered one-off implementations, learned from their needs and failures, and was accompanied by standardized metrics, dashboards and alerting.* Extended specialized Kubernetes CLI tooling for SC's k8s clusters, written in Go

Berlin, Germany

* Kickstarting a transformative project to migrate all reporting pipelines from HDFS and Spark to Airflow and Google BigQuery.* Exploration of development and testing strategies using Python and SQL in a tech space new to the team and the entire organization.

Berlin, Germany

* Leading a team of 8 software engineers to build control automation software for various projects in the green tech sector using Scrum.* Technical lead and go-to person for various technologies used such as Git, Java, OSGi, Apache Kafka, JUnit, Mockito* Staff responsibility, training and hiring of new colleagues.* Management and execution of the entire project lifecycle from customer-facing requirements engineering, implementation, automated and manual testing as well as on-site commissioning across Europe.* Acquirement of significant understanding of electrical engineering principles surrounding the technical requirements of the projects for frequency, voltage, active and reactive power management, corresponding safety principles and regulatory frameworks.

Berlin

Green-field development of automated control software for Battery Power Plants used by energy utilities forvarious electricity grid services. Adaptation of software to match project- and customer-specific needs.