Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Spotify
$164.4-234.9k
+ Equity
Commercial music streaming service
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Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$164.4-234.9k
+ Equity
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 have 5+ years of hands-on experience operating cloud infrastructure (GCP and/or AWS), using Terraform and Kubernetes to run production systems at scale
- You have practical experience — or a strong demonstrated interest — in operating LLM-based systems, RAG pipelines, or agentic workloads, and understand the reliability challenges of non-deterministic systems
- You think in distributed systems first principles — consistency, availability, partition tolerance — and translate that thinking into pragmatic infrastructure decisions
- You are proficient in at least one modern language (TypeScript, Java, Go, or Python) and comfortable navigating large, heterogeneous codebases, including environments where AI-generated PRs are common
- You build automation and improve systems so that whole categories of operational issues disappear over time
- You communicate complex infrastructure trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and you write postmortems that lead to meaningful change
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Backstage team at Spotify. We’re building the next generation of our developer platform — one that doesn’t just manage software, but actively helps create and maintain it through AI-native workflows
- In 2026, SRE isn’t just about uptime; it’s about symbiosis. As part of our growing engineering team, you’ll design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure behind our external developer portal product and our internal fleet of background coding agents
- You’ll collaborate closely with experienced engineers (both human and AI-assisted) while operating at real-world scale, with deep observability, strong safety boundaries, and the unique reliability challenges of agentic production systems
- As part of the Backstage team, you’ll shape developer experience for companies large and small, for our thriving open-source community, and for Spotify itself. You’ll help define how reliable, secure infrastructure enables the next wave of agentic developer tooling
- Own fleet reliability. Lead the reliability, security, and scalability strategy for Portal’s SaaS infrastructure, including the runtime environments that power our platform and LLM-driven agent workflows. Define SLOs, drive capacity planning, and ensure our systems meet the demands of a rapidly growing product
- Architect for the agentic era. Design and evolve infrastructure on GCP and AWS using Terraform and infrastructure-from-code patterns. Shape how we structure environments for non-deterministic AI workloads — including sandboxing, resource isolation, cost governance, and security boundaries
- Drive operational excellence. Evolve our incident management, on-call, and postmortem practices. Leverage AI assistants to accelerate root cause analysis and build increasingly self-healing capabilities into our production systems
- Lead fullstack reliability. Operate across a modern web stack (TypeScript, React, Python). While not frontend-heavy, you’ll diagnose and resolve issues across the stack and drive reliability improvements end-to-end
- Mentor and multiply. Raise the reliability IQ of the broader engineering team. Establish SRE best practices, conduct production-readiness reviews, and mentor engineers on operational thinking
- Shape the roadmap. Partner with engineering and product leadership to evolve our infrastructure in step with generative AI features. Translate operational insights into strategic input on the product roadmap
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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 HQ
Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län
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.
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