Design and operate multi-cloud foundations across GCP and AWS, enhancing developer tools and ensuring security and reliability. Collaborate on infrastructure for Spotify's internal platforms, mentor engineers, and contribute to Backstage and Portal.
The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers.
What if the systems you built changed how millions of developers work, not just at Spotify, but across the industry? The Platform Developer Experience (PDX) studio builds the infrastructure and internal products that power how Spotify engineers ship software. Within PDX and Backstage Product Area, the Platform Infrastructure team is building the next generation of cloud and compute foundations that power our internal developer platform and the AI agents running on top of it, and help bring those capabilities to market through Portal, Spotify's external developer platform built on Backstage.
You'll join the Platform Infrastructure team within the Backstage Product Area. The team owns the cloud foundations, developer tooling and security posture that the rest of Platform, and ultimately all of Spotify R&D, depends on. You’ll collaborate closely with experienced engineers (both human and AI-assisted) while operating at real-world scale, with deep observability, strong safety boundaries, and the unique reliability challenges of agentic production systems.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and operate multi-cloud foundations across GCP and AWS
- Own platform components end-to-end with a strong bar for reliability and security
- Improve developer tooling and platform self-service capabilities
- Build secure-by-default infrastructure patterns
- Drive operational excellence through incident management and automation
- Collaborate across Platform and R&D to improve developer productivity
- Contribute to Backstage and Portal
- Mentor engineers and raise engineering quality
Who You Are
- You have 5+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience
- You have deep experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS), Terraform, and Kubernetes
- You are proficient in a modern programming language
- You have strong experience with CI/CD and developer platforms
- You think in distributed systems and understand trade-offs
- You are familiar with AI/LLM systems and their application to infrastructure
- You take ownership of outcomes and drive impact
- You communicate clearly and navigate complex trade-offs
- You foster inclusive, collaborative environments
Where You'll Be
- This role is based in New York, NY
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.
The United States base range for this position is $164,448–$234,926 USD, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six-month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.
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