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Senior Backend Engineer - Music

2 days, 16 hours ago
North America, United States
Full-time
Senior
Backend Engineer
Software Development
Agile GCP gRPC Java Microservices PostgreSQL Scala
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Spotify

Spotify

Spotify is a leading global audio streaming service empowering artists and inspiring fans worldwide with over 70 million tracks. It has 365 million users, including 165 million subscribers, across 178 markets.

Media
Founded 2006
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Description

  • Design, build, and operate backend services and data pipelines that power Spotify Rights Center.
  • Work closely with product, insights, design, and engineering partners to understand external rightsholder and internal partner needs.
  • Deliver scalable, testable, maintainable backend systems with strong operational ownership.
  • Evolve the platform architecture as it expands across more licensors, territories, and content types.
  • Help shift the system from batch processing toward event-driven patterns.
  • Support timely delivery of technical solutions aligned to business needs.
  • Contribute to modern engineering practices, including agile ways of working and strong engineering standards.
  • Integrate with Spotify’s broader content and moderation ecosystem as needed.
  • Collaborate on product ideation with specialists, researchers, product managers, and subject-matter experts.
  • Participate in building a healthy, collaborative team culture and continuous learning environment.

Requirements

  • Strong experience designing and building distributed, high-volume services in Java or similar languages.
  • Comfort with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and event-driven architectures such as Pub/Sub.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases and an understanding of data modeling trade-offs.
  • Experience supporting production systems and applying incident learnings to new features.
  • Ability to own solutions end-to-end, from scoping through deployment and production monitoring.
  • Experience using modern testing, debugging, and automation techniques to ensure quality.
  • Solid understanding of object-oriented and functional programming paradigms.
  • Ability to proactively identify technical debt and work with the team to prioritize it.
  • Strong interest in software architecture across the full stack and the APIs that connect systems together.
  • Experience with Bazel, GCP services (Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, BigQuery), and data pipeline tools like Scio, Scala, or Flyte is a plus.
  • Familiarity with rights management, content moderation, or 0-to-1 product work is a plus.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $164,448 to $234,926 USD, plus equity.
  • Health insurance.
  • Six-month paid parental leave.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Monthly meal allowance.
  • 23 paid days off.
  • Paid flexible holidays.
  • Paid sick leave.
  • Remote work flexibility within the North Americas region, with collaboration in Eastern Standard Time.

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