Principal Software Engineer, Pub Admin

UK & Ireland, United Kingdom, London

Sony Music’s Product, Design, Engineering & Global Operations (PDEGO) organisation is seeking a Principal Software Engineer within our Pub Admin product team in our London King’s Cross office (hybrid/three days a week).

Pub Admin (Publishing Administration) is our future product for a unified, modern rights platform - where our engineers help transform the complex domain of music publishing administration into simple, scalable, high-performance product solutions for Sony Music’s global creator community. You’ll shape what we build as well as how we build it, working directly with product and design on problems where the right answer isn’t yet known.

What you'll do:

• Work cross-functionally across multiple teams in our Royalty Accounting organisation to build and own a new business vertical that will help rights holders register, manage, and monetize their catalogues worldwide
• Lead design, implementation, and scaling of complex distributed systems end-to-end from early-stage ideation to market
• Partner with product management and design to understand client and stakeholder needs, challenge requirements where necessary, help decide what not to build, and turn the decisions into clear technical direction
• Design, communicate and execute a vision in collaboration with the wider organisation
• Contribute to all tiers of our architecture to produce high-quality and robust user experiences
• Mentor engineers across all levels and contribute to a culture of continuous learning and engineering best practices

The ideal candidate has:

• Driven technical strategy and alignment across multiple teams as a principal engineer or equivalent
• Measured success by user and business outcomes, not only uptime and latency
• Designed systems to ensure testability, reliability, and observability at cloud scale
• Shaped a product roadmap or influenced prioritisation, not just delivered against one

• Led data modelling decisions for complex domains, grounded in user and business impact, that adapted as requirements changed
• Deep expertise in at least one database technology (we use Neo4j, MySQL, Snowflake, and OpenSearch)
• Worked extensively with microservices, APIs, and related standards such as REST, HTTP, and OAuth
• Built production systems across the full stack (we use React, TypeScript, Python, and GraphQL)

What we give you:

• You join a vibrant global community with the opportunity to channel your passion every day
• A modern office environment designed for you, empowering you to bring your best
• Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our community
• Mandate to accelerate progress, positively disrupt and create what happens next
• A platform to champion positive change, with the opportunity to contribute to our social impact, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
• An excellent range of benefits like private medical cover, a generous pension scheme, life assurance, income protection, plus loads of music industry perks. There’s also time off over winter break

About Us

At Sony Music Entertainment, we fuel the creative journey. We’ve played a pioneering role in music history, from the first-ever music label to the invention of the flat disc record. We’ve nurtured some of music’s most iconic artists and produced some of the most influential recordings of all time.

Today, we work in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse roster of international superstars, developing and independent artists, and visionary creators. From our position at the intersection of music, entertainment, and technology, we bring imagination and expertise to the newest products and platforms, embrace new business models, employ breakthrough tools, and provide powerful insights that help our artists push creative boundaries and reach new audiences. In everything we do, we’re committed to artistic integrity, transparency, and entrepreneurship.

Sony Music Entertainment is a member of the Sony family of global companies.

Equal Opportunities

As an active part of a culturally and socially diverse society, Sony Music’s aim is that our workforce is diverse and inclusive. Sony Music is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.

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Please note that applicants must be at least 18 years of age.