Senior Platform/SRE Engineer, Spotify
Backstage
$156.3-223.3k
+ Equity
More information about location
Commercial music streaming service
Open for applications
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$156.3-223.3k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it
Role
Who you are
- You bring a blend of technical expertise and a passion for growth. Specifically, you have:
- Demonstrable experience with SaaS infrastructure, GCP, Distributed Systems, TypeScript, and Node (React experience is a plus!)
- A Love for Scale: You thrive in distributed systems and know how to design pragmatic solutions
- Engineering Passion: Sound practices like continuous delivery and automated testing are second nature
- Mentor and Collaborator: Your communication skills inspire teams, and your guidance helps others grow
- Always Improving: You embrace feedback, refine processes, and push boundaries
- Open-Source Advocate: Contributions to or involvement in open-source communities? Even better
What the job involves
- We’re searching for a Senior Platform/Fullstack Engineer to join our Backstage organization
- Together, we’re creating a pioneering platform that transforms how millions of developers build, scale, and innovate
- Backstage is more than just a platform—it’s a ground-breaking force in the developer community. Born out of Spotify’s quest for better developer tooling
- Backstage is now a powerhouse driving the future of developer portals across the globe
- From industry titans building internal developer platforms to lean teams looking to skyrocket satisfaction, our solutions set the new gold standard
- As part of the Backstage team, you’ll shape the developer experience for companies big and small, for our thriving open-source community, and for Spotify itself
- You’ll have the unique opportunity to be at the forefront of developer tooling, driving innovation that touches millions
- Build and operate infrastructure on GCP and AWS, focusing on network connectivity, security, and observability
- Design and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions with Terraform, ensuring consistency and reliability
- Collaborate with security teams to deliver on compliance, ensuring platform security and trustworthiness
- Promote and implement SRE methodologies, enabling smooth deployments, monitoring and short feedback loops to resolve incidents
- Take operational responsibility for services, participating in an on-call rotation to ensure uptime
- Work closely with multi-functional teams: product, design, sales, marketing, and customer success
- Shape technical strategy and deliver impactful, high-visibility projects that transform the developer experience
Our take
Spotify was founded in an attempt to combat the rampant music piracy that was causing significant harm to the industry. The company has since taken music streaming mainstream and now has 180m+ paying subscribers across the world.
With features that include a highly accessible interface and a vast catalogue of artists, Spotify's strong brand has been able to maintain growth in spite of fierce competition from deep-pocketed rivals like Amazon and Apple. The company has achieved this by making smart acquisitions to move into other verticals to strengthen its offerings, especially podcasting, by acquiring Gimlet Media, Anchor and Parcast.
Spotify's future plans include rapid growth with a goal to become a one-stop destination for all digital sound, as well as AI and NFT integrations. However, high costs incurred from the acquisition of exclusive podcasts, increasing competitor strength, and weak bottom-line growth mean that the company must find a balance to maintain its position in the sector.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2016
$1bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jun 2015
$526m
SERIES G
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company benefits
- Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse
- Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success
- Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents
- All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub
- Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs
Company values
- Innovative: We move fast and take big risks
- Sincere: We have no time for internal politics
- Passionate: We revel in what we do
- Collaborative: We recognise that we're all in this together
- Playful: We don't take ourselves too seriously
Company HQ
Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län
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Leadership
Daniel Ek
(CEO & Chairman)Founded Spotify in 2006. Previously worked as an executive at Tradera, an auction company that was sold to eBay and was briefly the CEO of uTorrent.
People progressing
Joined as a Conversion Manager in the Growth Team. Promoted three times over seven years to Senior Director - Head of Growth.
Joined as a Customer Advisor. Since then has had the role titles Senior Advisor, Content Associate, Team Coach, and Operations Manager - Primary Support. Hurst is now currently the Business Operations Manager of Music.
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