Jobs at Bandcamp
How We Work
There is no Bandcamp office. Our team is sprinkled throughout the world, with arms, cells, pods, what-have-yous in San Francisco, Montreal, Los Angeles, the Pacific NW, a Carolina, Pittsburgh, Vermont, the British Isles and Berlin. We get together all day and night on Slack, design and document everything in a wiki, do a short daily hangout that is exactly like the start of Hill Street Blues, and meet in person a few times a year for strategizing, working head-to-head, and laser bowling. If you do not have a strong social structure outside of work then employment at Bandcamp will likely lead to heart disease and an early death. We’re hiring!
Systems Engineer
Bandcamp is seeking a talented individual to help maximize the performance, availability, and security of our production systems. You're an experienced developer, but you don't need to work on fancy UIs — you want to get into the nuts and bolts, understand how things work, and make them work better. You have a strong Linux background, proven troubleshooting skills, and a willingness to be on-call.
You will:
- Find, prioritize, and fix performance, availability, and security issues at all levels of our backend stack: Linux, Ruby, MySQL, Memcached, Solr, nginx, haproxy.
- Troubleshoot production problems.
- Research new techniques and technologies, and refactor existing code to make use of them.
- Build tools to gather performance and availability data, and analyze the results.
- Collaborate with our development team to create features which are fast, highly available, and secure.
- Write code to automate systems tasks.
- Build new systems from scratch, from design through ordering servers and deploying software.
- Live anywhere but your work day needs to overlap at least four hours with UTC-7.
About you:
- Experienced coder. You have real-world programming samples you're proud of and can share.
- Understand Linux, how to write code for it, and how to debug code running on it.
- Intimately familiar with SQL, including optimizing schemas and queries.
- Scientific: formulating hypotheses, running experiments, reaching actionable conclusions.
- Cool and rational in the midst of a crisis.
- Very, very. Very. Detail-oriented.
- Adore documenting your work, and do so pithily.
- Communicate in technical English with fluidity and grace.
- Comfortable being on-call and working at odd hours.
Shall we play a game? If you’re interested, view source to apply.
Senior Editor
Bandcamp is looking for a New York-based Senior Editor who is not only a skillful, creative and thoughtful writer and editor, but has a voracious love of new music in all genres, and a deep love of storytelling in all its forms. The Senior Editor works closely with Bandcamp’s Editorial Director to navigate through the world of Bandcamp, identifying unique and important artists/releases to cover, pairing them with the perfect writer, and seeing the story through from conception to completion. They are aware of emerging musical trends that go beyond individual artists and albums, and see the features that they assign not as closed cases, but as part of a larger conversation about music.
The Senior Editor will:
- Work with the Editorial Director to identify and spotlight artists for coverage.
- Assign interviews and features to writers, and work closely with each writer through the editing process to ensure high-caliber copy.
- Develop, own and assign unique editorial franchises for Bandcamp.
- Help brainstorm, develop and produce excellent thematic editorial packages.
- Manage a small team of genre specialists who produce weekly work for the site.
- Regularly contribute features and reviews to Bandcamp.
Requirements:
- 2-3 years experience in music journalism, with published pieces in major outlets; editorial experience strongly preferred.
- Strong connections with publicists, managers and freelance writers.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a sharp eye for detail.
- An innate knowledge of what makes a story interesting, and an ability to shape a story to highlight those details.
- The ability to operate in a deadline-driven environment.
- A working knowledge of all musical genres.
- A deep-seated intolerance for cliche.
- The ability to work in a collaborative editorial environment.
To apply, please send your resume and writing samples to senioreditor@bandcamp.com.
Managing Editor
Bandcamp is looking for a New York-based Managing Editor who combines a keen eye for detail with strong organizational skills and a passion for emerging artists. The Managing Editor is responsible for assigning daily and short-form features across Bandcamp, and has a knack for snappy, tasteful lists and fun thematic features. They are a musical generalist, with a working knowledge of all genres and strong instincts for which records warrant coverage. They make sure all copy is filed in a timely manner, and coordinate payment of freelance contributors. They are the last line of defense in the editing process, and should have strong copy-editing and fact-checking skills.
The Managing Editor will:
- Manage Bandcamp’s Editorial Calendar; ensure that copy is filed on time and is published to the site in a timely manner.
- Assign short album reviews to writers, and works closely with each writer through the editing process to ensure high-caliber copy.
- Develop, own and assign unique short-form editorial franchises for Bandcamp.
- Help brainstorm, develop and produce excellent thematic editorial packages with Bandcamp’s editorial team.
- Regularly contribute features and reviews to Bandcamp.
- Copy-edit and fact-check all copy before it appears on Bandcamp, making sure it adheres to Bandcamp’s in-house style guide.
Requirements:
- 1 - 2 years experience in music journalism, with published pieces in major outlets; editorial experience strongly preferred.
- Strong connections with publicists, managers and freelance writers.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a sharp eye for detail.
- Meticulous organizational skills and the ability to operate in a deadline-driven environment.
- A knack for smart, pithy, well-crafted lists and guides.
- A working knowledge of all musical genres.
- The ability to work in a collaborative editorial environment.
To apply, please email your resume and writing samples to managingeditor@bandcamp.com.
Bandcamp is looking for a social media expert to own our voice on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc., with a special emphasis on promoting and supporting the efforts of Bandcamp’s editorial team. We’re seeking a candidate who is proactive; quick on their feet; a creative problem solver; has a good head on their shoulders, is quick with a joke and is very, very organized. The best candidates will instinctively understand social media, will know which stories play best on which platforms, and will work with the editorial team not only to socialize existing stories, but to help develop stories with social media in mind. They will possess excellent judgment, a strong voice, boundless energy, and the ability to simultaneously run many different social media accounts, playing to the strengths of each. This person will be responsible for growing our audience, honing social voice, and boosting consumption of stories. The ideal candidate will also look at social platforms as an avenue for storytelling, and will be able to consider leveraging the strengths of each channel to tell unique, distinct stories on each based around Bandcamp’s content.
The Social Media Producer will:
- Manage assets, resources and tools to populate social accounts.
- Be available to respond to critical issues using our channels as they arise, no matter the day or time.
- Create and develop new content and campaigns to serve users and grow account followings.
- Translate content so that it appeals to the different user experiences and consumption habits across different social networks.
- Identify the most compelling visuals to accompany content, and package those for effective sharing.
- Coordinate advertising spends on Facebook and Twitter posts; identify the posts that are performing or will perform for the audience.
- Tweak and troubleshoot when stories aren’t performing to expectation.
Requirements:
- Expert user of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.
- 2 years experience in professional social media management/production; editorial or newsroom experience a plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- A sharp, witty sense of humor.
- Visual media experience a plus (photography, videography).
- A wizard with .gifs.
- Always ahead of the curve on emerging social media platforms.
- Meticulous organization skills.
To apply, please send your resume and writing samples to socialmedia@bandcamp.com.
