Spotify
Senior Backend Engineer - Content Platform
London; StockholmHybrid · United Kingdom
Senior · Permanent · Engineering
POSTED 21 OCTVERIFIED 7H AGO
Pay · H-1B filings
$226k
median · n=8 · FY26
Open for
14d
since 21 Oct
H-1B · FY26
72
4 PERM · NL sponsor · UK sponsor
Hiring · 30d
85
−1 net · open roles
JavaScalaGCP
What You'll Do
- Build and run the backend services and data pipelines that ingest, validate and process music deliveries from partners, covering audio, metadata, lyrics and new content types
- Own large parts of the ingestion pipeline and lead technical work as we add video, richer partner data and other new content
- Make ingestion more reliable, catch data quality problems at the point of entry, and improve the operational tooling around the pipeline
- Design and evolve APIs and schemas that other teams depend on, keeping contracts stable and backward compatible
- Help move validation towards real time and make Silk Road a well-documented, self-serve platform
- Deliver roadmap work, take part in planning, review code, and share on-call
- Work with Content Ops, operations tooling teams, partner teams and the product teams that build on our content
Who You Are
- You have strong experience building and operating backend services and data pipelines in production at scale, ideally in Java, Scala or Go
- You have designed APIs and handled schema evolution and backward compatibility in systems where other teams rely on stable contracts
- You’re comfortable modelling data for auditability, versioning and efficient querying and understand the tradeoffs between real-time and batch processing
- You lead projects from discovery to handover, make sound technical decisions, and mentor others
- You may have worked with content ingestion, metadata standards such as DDEX, B2B partner integrations, rights or compliance-sensitive data, lyrics or time-synced data, or GCP.
Where You'll Be
- This role is based in London or Stockholm.
- 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.