11 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define the technical direction for policy enforcement infrastructure.
- Architect shared enforcement capabilities consumed by multiple product teams.
- Design multi-signal orchestration systems for configurable and auditable policy enforcement at scale.
- Build durable and reusable data foundations for enforcement decisions.
- Own API, schema, versioning, and service-contract decisions.
- Establish integration standards and lead consuming teams through migrations.
- Influence architecture across detection, signal processing, and enforcement workflows.
- Mentor engineers and set standards for API design, data modeling, and infrastructure decisions.
Requirements
- Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, APIs, event-driven pipelines, rule engines, and production decision systems.
- Strong backend engineering experience at scale with languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or similar.
- Experience owning data models, service contracts, and storage-layer decisions.
- Experience with stream processing and event-driven architectures such as Kafka or Pub/Sub, including batch and real-time pipeline tradeoffs.
- Experience designing systems where schema and contract stability are critical.
- Experience with workflow orchestration and distributed coordination using approaches such as Temporal, Airflow, choreography-based event systems, or hybrid models.
- Experience with relational and non-relational storage systems and modeling data for auditability, immutability, and efficient querying.
- Understanding of platform engineering patterns, multi-tenant APIs, configurable rule engines, and policy-driven actioning systems.
- Familiarity with observability, distributed tracing, structured logging, alerting, and production debugging and auditability tooling.
- Experience in regulated or compliance-adjacent environments and understanding of legal and audit consequences of infrastructure decisions.
- Comfort working in polyglot environments and navigating existing systems thoughtfully.
- Ability to reason about systems end to end.
Benefits
- Role based in London or Stockholm.
- Flexible work arrangement with work-from-home flexibility 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.