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Spotify

Backend Engineer - Core Infrastructure

Spotify
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about 10 hours ago
London, United Kingdom
Mid Level / Senior
H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve Spotify’s perimeter infrastructure for client-backend traffic management.
  • Design, build, and maintain systems for cloud networking, provisioning, and monitoring.
  • Contribute to distributed systems by writing and improving production-grade code.
  • Enhance traffic protection capabilities, including DDoS mitigation.
  • Collaborate with engineers to design reliable and scalable services.
  • Run disaster recovery exercises and prepare for real-world failure scenarios.
  • Troubleshoot complex system behaviors and improve performance.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to support service operational health.

Requirements

  • Experience with Kubernetes and understanding of networking fundamentals.
  • Comfortable operating and debugging distributed systems in production.
  • Strong coding skills in at least one programming language, with openness to learn others.
  • Experience with load balancing, monitoring, or configuration management systems.
  • Knowledge of software engineering practices like testing and continuous integration.
  • Curiosity about system behavior and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to work in a distributed team and collaborate across locations.
  • Methodical approach to solving infrastructure challenges.

Benefits

  • Flexibility to work from home or in-person meetings in London or Stockholm.
  • Commitment to inclusivity and accessibility in the recruitment process.

Tech Stack

C++JavaKubernetes

Categories

BackendDevOps