16 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the long-term architectural direction for the Content Platform media pipeline.
- Lead large-scale, multi-quarter technical initiatives across multiple squads and organizations.
- Guide architecture across media ingestion, transcoding, packaging, storage, content delivery, and playback.
- Partner with engineering managers, product managers, and senior engineers on technical strategy, reliability, product priorities, and cost efficiency.
- Author and review RFCs, architecture decision records, and technical design documents.
- Mentor senior engineers and improve technical quality, architectural thinking, and engineering excellence.
- Evaluate the effects of media architecture decisions on compute, storage, CDN utilization, and platform sustainability.
Requirements
- Deep expertise building large-scale media platforms spanning audio, video, encoding, transcoding, packaging, delivery, and playback technologies.
- Demonstrated success leading architecture across multiple engineering teams and influencing technical direction beyond an immediate organization.
- Significant experience designing and operating internet-scale distributed systems, including high-throughput media processing, large-scale storage, and globally distributed delivery infrastructure.
- Understanding of trade-offs among codecs, packaging formats, playback technologies, storage, networking, and infrastructure costs.
- Strong record of leading multi-quarter technical initiatives from proposal through implementation and organization-wide adoption.
- Ability to communicate technical ideas through RFCs, design documents, and architectural decision records.
- Strong collaboration and technical credibility across teams with different priorities.
- Enjoyment of mentoring experienced engineers and helping organizations develop technical capability.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure providers, CDN vendors, and large-scale media delivery ecosystems is highly valued.
Benefits
- Based in London or Stockholm.
- Flexible work arrangement with the ability to work from home and some in-person meetings.
- Spotify is an equal opportunity employer and supports reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.
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About Spotify
Spotify builds a global audio streaming platform for listeners and creators, offering on-demand music and podcasts across mobile, desktop, and connected devices. The business runs a freemium model: an ad-supported free tier and a paid Premium subscription, plus creator tools like Spotify for Artists and podcast publishing. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Stockholm, it is a publicly traded company on the NYSE (SPOT) serving consumers and rights holders worldwide.