3 months ago
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and evolution of data, backend, and ML infrastructure for content intelligence capabilities.
- Build scalable infrastructure for multimodal audio, video, text, and image processing pipelines.
- Drive architectural decisions across distributed systems, ML infrastructure, data processing platforms, and platform reliability.
- Improve infrastructure for AI- and LLM-enabled transcript processing, metadata enrichment, and content understanding workflows.
- Develop reliable and cost-efficient systems for high-throughput content processing and real-time intelligence use cases.
- Partner with product managers, engineering managers, and senior engineers to shape technical strategy.
- Lead cross-organizational alignment and long-term platform investments.
- Mentor engineers and raise the engineering quality bar.
Requirements
- Extensive experience building and scaling large-scale backend and infrastructure systems in distributed environments.
- Strong programming experience in Java, Python, and/or Scala.
- Experience with high-volume multimedia or real-time workloads.
- Direct experience building products that use AI and LLMs at scale, including understanding quality and cost trade-offs.
- Experience leading complex technical initiatives spanning multiple teams or organizational areas.
- Strong technical judgment across scalability, reliability, cost, and product needs.
- Exposure to search infrastructure, recommendation systems, or audio processing systems is preferred.
- Experience in startup environments or early-stage product areas is highly valued.
Benefits
- Role based in London or Stockholm.
- Flexible work arrangement with some in-person meetings and the ability to work from home.
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About Spotify
Deliver creativity to the world -- one note, one voice, one idea at a time. At Spotify, we focus relentlessly on building the best and most valuable experience available anywhere, enhancing every moment by connecting the world to the art and the creatives who shape it. Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 70m 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. Today, Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming service with 365m users, including 165m subscribers across 178 markets. We are the largest driver of revenue to the music business today.