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Responsibilities
- Build and operate backend systems supporting personalization and recommendation workloads.
- Develop infrastructure for efficient retrieval, ranking, filtering, candidate generation, and content and user representations.
- Design reliable, scalable, and performant high-volume services.
- Improve the reliability, observability, maintainability, and operational performance of owned systems.
- Partner with engineers across Spotify to build reusable platform solutions.
- Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions.
Requirements
- Professional experience building and operating backend systems in production.
- Experience with distributed systems, APIs, data-intensive applications, or large-scale service architectures.
- Ability to work with systems where reliability, latency, and scalability are important.
- Ability to independently own engineering projects while collaborating across teams.
- Interest in infrastructure for recommendation and personalization systems.
- Prior machine learning experience is helpful but not required.
- Commitment to maintainable code and thoughtful technical decisions.
Benefits
- Distributed work options, including working from home or an office, within eligible North America locations.
- Collaboration operates within the Eastern Standard time zone.
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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.