Spotify

Streams music, podcasts and audiobooks

Senior Backend Engineer - Content Platform

Backend EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

Strong experience building and operating backend services and data pipelines in production at scale, ideally using Java, Scala, or Go.
Experience designing APIs and handling schema evolution and backward compatibility in systems where other teams rely on stable contracts.
Ability to model data for auditability, versioning, and efficient querying, and understand tradeoffs between real-time and batch processing.
Ability to lead projects from discovery to handover and make sound technical decisions.

Responsibilities

Build and run backend services and data pipelines that ingest, validate, and process partner music deliveries, including audio, metadata, lyrics, and new content types.
Own large parts of the ingestion pipeline and lead technical work as the platform adds video, richer partner data, and other new content.
Improve ingestion reliability, catch data quality problems at the point of entry, and improve operational tooling around the pipeline.
Design and evolve APIs and schemas used by other teams, keeping contracts stable and backward compatible.
Help move validation toward real time and make Silk Road a well-documented, self-serve platform.
Deliver roadmap work, participate in planning, review code, and share on-call responsibilities.
Work with Content Ops, operations tooling teams, partner teams, and product teams that build on the content.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with content ingestion, metadata standards such as DDEX, B2B partner integrations, rights or compliance-sensitive data, lyrics or time-synced data, or GCP.

We design Spotify’s consumer experience—end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration. Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world. That means turning complexity into clarity across hundreds of touchpoints—from our mobile and desktop apps to the smart speakers, TVs, cars, and integrations where Spotify shows up every day. If it touches a consumer, we shape it. We bring deep insight into human behavior, design, and technology to craft experiences that feel intuitive, expressive, and unmistakably Spotify.

We own music content ingestion at Spotify, which is how music from labels, distributors and other partners gets onto the platform. We receive industry-standard deliveries, validate them, and turn them into the catalog data that teams across Spotify build on, including lyrics, rights and supply data. As we add new content types and partners, we’re building an ingestion platform that scales without a custom build every time.

What You'll Do

Build and run the backend services and data pipelines that ingest, validate and process music deliveries from partners, covering audio, metadata, lyrics and new content types

Own large parts of the ingestion pipeline and lead technical work as we add video, richer partner data and other new content

Make ingestion more reliable, catch data quality problems at the point of entry, and improve the operational tooling around the pipeline

Design and evolve APIs and schemas that other teams depend on, keeping contracts stable and backward compatible

Help move validation towards real time and make Silk Road a well-documented, self-serve platform

Deliver roadmap work, take part in planning, review code, and share on-call

Work with Content Ops, operations tooling teams, partner teams and the product teams that build on our content

Who You Are

You have strong experience building and operating backend services and data pipelines in production at scale, ideally in Java, Scala or Go

You have designed APIs and handled schema evolution and backward compatibility in systems where other teams rely on stable contracts

You’re comfortable modelling data for auditability, versioning and efficient querying and understand the tradeoffs between real-time and batch processing

You lead projects from discovery to handover, make sound technical decisions, and mentor others

You may have worked with content ingestion, metadata standards such as DDEX, B2B partner integrations, rights or compliance-sensitive data, lyrics or time-synced data, or GCP.

Where You'll Be

This role is based in London or Stockholm.
We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.

About the Company

Spotify

Streams music, podcasts and audiobooks

Spotify runs an audio streaming service where listeners find music, podcasts, and audiobooks through one account on phones, computers, and connected devices. Its Discover Weekly playlist recommends songs based on listening habits, alongside playlists made by editors and artists. Listeners stream on demand, save favorites, share playlists, and download eligible content for offline listening through paid plans. The business earns subscription fees from Premium members and advertising revenue from its free service, while separate creator tools support publishing, audience measurement, and promotion. Spotify was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Company size: 5,001-10,000
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Stockholms kommun, Sweden
Founded: 2006

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