Delivering the best Spotify experience possible. To as many people as possible. In as many moments as possible. That’s what the Experience Mission is all about. We use our deep understanding of consumer expectations to enrich the lives of millions of users around the world, bringing the music, audio, and video they love to the devices, apps, and platforms they use every day.
The Content Platform team powers the full lifecycle of content across music, podcasts, audiobooks, and emerging formats. We make sure that everything—from licensed tracks to creator submissions and user-generated content—is delivered in a way that’s trusted, safe, and high quality at global scale. Our work sits at the heart of Spotify’s ecosystem, shaping how content is ingested, understood, governed, and distributed.
We’re seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on delivering content across Spotify’s ecosystem—ensuring that metadata and media flow efficiently and reliably from a wide range of internal systems to our apps and partner platforms. This work underpins every play, recommendation, and interaction, requiring systems that are scalable, observable, and resilient.
What You'll Do
Lead and grow a team of engineers building large-scale systems that power how content is delivered across Spotify
Set technical direction and guide the evolution of backend systems responsible for content distribution
Partner closely with product, design, and platform teams to deliver reliable, high-impact solutions
Ensure highly available, scalable, and performant infrastructure supporting millions of content interactions
Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement within your team
Support engineers through coaching, feedback, and career development
Drive execution across complex, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple systems and stakeholders
Champion best practices in reliability, observability, and system design
Who You Are
You have experience leading and developing engineering teams in a fast-paced, product-driven environment
You bring strong technical experience in distributed systems, backend platforms, or infrastructure at scale
You know how to balance technical direction with people leadership, creating clarity and focus for your team
You are comfortable working across teams and aligning stakeholders toward shared goals
You care deeply about building reliable systems that impact millions of users
You have experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems or data/content delivery pipelines
You communicate clearly and foster an environment where ideas are shared openly
You are motivated by developing others and building inclusive, high-performing teams
Where You'll Be
This role is based in Stockholm or London
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
Skills Required
- Experience leading and developing engineering teams
- Strong technical experience in distributed systems
- Experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems
Spotify Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Spotify and has not been reviewed or approved by Spotify.
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Flexible Benefits — Employees consistently praise the total compensation package beyond base salary, highlighting a mix of RSUs, cash incentives, and stipends alongside core pay. The package is described as flexible and customizable through equity choices (e.g., RSUs, options, cash) that can be tailored for long-term wealth building.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are repeatedly highlighted as substantial, including generous vacation, paid sick days, volunteer time, and flexible holidays. These policies are framed as a meaningful part of the overall rewards experience beyond salary.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is portrayed as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, and mental health support. Additional employer contributions to HSAs are cited as strengthening the overall health and wellness value proposition.
Spotify Insights
What We Do
Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 50m tracks for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features including offline mode, improved sound quality, and an ad-free music listening experience.
