Backend Engineer, Spotify
Platform
Commercial music streaming service
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Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
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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 are an experienced Software Engineer
- You know how to write distributed, high-performance services in Java
- You are experienced with deploying and operating services on Linux
- You have experience working with cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
- You have experience working with version control systems (e.g., Git) and agile development methodologies
- You are familiar with Prometheus and time series databases
- You are familiar with reliability best practices like SLOs and SLIs
- You have experience or familiarity with Go and k8s operators
- You have a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
- You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code
- Experienced in designing, analyzing, optimizing code and fixing large-scale distributed systems
- Have a detailed problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of drive
What the job involves
- We are looking for a passionate Backend Engineer to join Spotify's Observability and Reliability Infrastructure team
- Our mission is to provide a coherent observability and reliability platform for our engineers by providing tools, expertise and insights around the operational health of Spotify's microservice infrastructure allowing teams to confidently operate their services
- You will combine software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems with a focus on optimizing systems and reducing work through automation
- At Spotify, our engineers are empowered to work on meaningful projects
- Be a technical leader within the team you work with and within Spotify in general
- Facilitate collaboration with other engineers, product owners, and designers to solve exciting and sophisticated problems for delivering various media worldwide
- Architect, design, develop, deploy and operate Java services following good design and development practices
- Be a leader of the Spotify-wide backend developer community affecting and driving our architecture across the company
- Hack on what you want during regular hack days and bi-annual hack weeks
- Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle for services– from inception and design, through deployment, operation and optimization
- Maintain services once they are live through measuring and monitoring
- Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
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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