We’re excited to announce the launch of our public bug bounty program with Bugcrowd — the #1 crowdsourced security platform. This public program is open to Bugcrowd’s full crowd of top, trusted whitehat hackers, and we will award up to $1,500 per vulnerability identified on our website, API, and mob...

Once every two weeks, we prepare new versions of our mobile apps to be published to the app stores. Being confident about releasing software at that scale — with as many features and code contributions as we have and while targeting a wide range of devices like we do at SoundCloud — is no easy task....

Once every two weeks, we prepare new versions of our mobile apps to be published to the app stores. Being confident about releasing software at that scale — with as many features and code contributions as we have and while targeting a wide range of devices like we do at SoundCloud — is no easy task....

In the past, the Search Team at SoundCloud had high lead times for making updates to Elasticsearch clusters, either during the implementation of a new feature or simply while fixing a bug. This was because both tasks require us to reindex our catalog from scratch, which means reindexing more than 72...

In the past, the Search Team at SoundCloud had high lead times for making updates to Elasticsearch clusters, either during the implementation of a new feature or simply while fixing a bug. This was because both tasks require us to reindex our catalog from scratch, which means reindexing more than 72...

Last month we launched SoundCloud Premier Distribution, which allows creators to distribute their music from SoundCloud to many other…

Last month we launched SoundCloud Premier Distribution, which allows creators to distribute their music from SoundCloud to many other…

Although it can be easy to know if you’ve messed up badly as a manager, it’s not always as easy to know if you’re doing a good job. In…

Although it can be easy to know if you’ve messed up badly as a manager, it’s not always as easy to know if you’re doing a good job. In…

The SoundCloud Xbox application is a regular React Redux application that runs in a native web view wrapper on Microsoft’s UWP framework. In…

The SoundCloud Xbox application is a regular React Redux application that runs in a native web view wrapper on Microsoft’s UWP framework. In…

Almost every company accumulates tech debt as time goes on. Tight deadlines, changing requirements, scaling issues, poor or short-sighted system designs, knowledge silos, inconsistent coding practices, turnover of key staff — these things all happen and can contribute to tech debt. So what can be do...

We write a lot of unit tests while working on the SoundCloud iOS application. Unit tests are obviously great. They’re short, they’re…

Almost every company accumulates tech debt as time goes on. Tight deadlines, changing requirements, scaling issues, poor or short-sighted system designs, knowledge silos, inconsistent coding practices, turnover of key staff — these things all happen and can contribute to tech debt. So what can be do...

We write a lot of unit tests while working on the SoundCloud iOS application. Unit tests are obviously great. They’re short, they’re…

The current SoundCloud iOS App was built back in 2014, resulting in a huge codebase consisting of both Objective-C and Swift, with multiple…

The current SoundCloud iOS App was built back in 2014, resulting in a huge codebase consisting of both Objective-C and Swift, with multiple…

SoundCloud is built on hundreds of microservices. This creates many challenges, among them debugging latency issues across the services…

SoundCloud is built on hundreds of microservices. This creates many challenges, among them debugging latency issues across the services…

At SoundCloud, we follow best practices around continuous delivery, i.e. deploying small incremental changes often (many times a day). In…

At SoundCloud, we follow best practices around continuous delivery, i.e. deploying small incremental changes often (many times a day). In…

Nowadays, it’s rather common to encounter Apache Spark being utilized in a lot of companies that need to process huge amounts of data, and things aren’t any different here at SoundCloud — as one can imagine, we have lots of data to process all the time.

Nowadays, it’s rather common to encounter Apache Spark being utilized in a lot of companies that need to process huge amounts of data, and things aren’t any different here at SoundCloud — as one can imagine, we have lots of data to process all the time.

Sometimes, an important team that’s part of an otherwise healthy company culture starts tanking and the people on the team get frustrated and even quit. In this article, I want to share what I learned when I started to manage a team — referred to as the R Team from here on out — that had huge proble...

Sometimes, an important team that’s part of an otherwise healthy company culture starts tanking and the people on the team get frustrated and even quit. In this article, I want to share what I learned when I started to manage a team — referred to as the R Team from here on out — that had huge proble...

Agile retrospectives are a widely used practice within engineering teams. They provide teams with a way to reflect on how they work and become better at what they do. One of the main benefits of retrospectives is that they empower teams to define and make changes by analyzing what happened in an ite...

Agile retrospectives are a widely used practice within engineering teams. They provide teams with a way to reflect on how they work and become better at what they do. One of the main benefits of retrospectives is that they empower teams to define and make changes by analyzing what happened in an ite...

Or, how to raise a project from the dead with tools you probably have lying around at home.

Or, how to raise a project from the dead with tools you probably have lying around at home.

An absolutely crucial part of the experience of being an engineer at SoundCloud is learning and growing as a person. Pretty much everyone we hire mentions this aspect as one of their main motivations for joining the company. And while retaining highly talented and motivated people and helping them d...