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
- Build and operate components of our multi-cloud foundations across GCP and AWS, including compute, storage, networking, identity, and platform primitives
- Own components and features end-to-end: from technical design through implementation, rollout, and on-call
- Contribute to developer tooling (CI/CD, build systems, deployment, observability) so engineers ship safely and quickly
- Participate in incident management, on-call, and postmortems, using AI assistants to accelerate root cause analysis
- Collaborate across Platform and R&D to improve developer productivity
- Contribute to Backstage and Portal to simplify cloud and tooling access
- Grow through code reviews, design discussions, and collaboration with senior engineers
Who You Are
- You have 2+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience working on production systems
- You have experience building or operating cloud infrastructure (GCP and/or AWS), with familiarity in Terraform and Kubernetes
- You are proficient in at least one modern language (TypeScript, Java, Go, or Python)
- You have experience with CI/CD, deployment systems, and observability tooling
- You think about systems in terms of reliability, performance, cost, and failure modes
- You are curious about AI/LLM systems and their application to infrastructure
- You take ownership of your work and follow through on problems
- You communicate clearly and collaborate effectively across teams
- You are open to feedback and motivated to grow
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.
Skills Required
- 2+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience
- Experience building or operating cloud infrastructure (GCP and/or AWS)
- Familiarity with Terraform and Kubernetes
- Proficiency in at least one modern language (TypeScript, Java, Go, or Python)
- Experience with CI/CD, deployment systems, and observability tooling
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
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