Site Reliability Engineer, Spotify
Backstage
$125.6-179.4k
+ Equity
Commercial music streaming service
Be an early applicant
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$125.6-179.4k
+ 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
- Are you excited by the idea of building fast, reliable, and scalable infrastructure for a product used by engineering teams around the world?
- This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in a startup-like setting, enjoys working on infrastructure, and wants to grow their impact by supporting a product used by engineering teams globally
- You have hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (preferably GCP or AWS) and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform
- You understand the principles of distributed systems and how to operate them reliably at scale
- You’ve worked with at least one modern programming language (e.g., TypeScript, Java, Go, Python), and you’re comfortable navigating fullstack applications—even if frontend isn’t your main focus
- You care about code quality and reliability and look for ways to improve systems through automation and testing
- You’re collaborative, open to feedback, and eager to grow as an engineer
- Bonus: You’re familiar with open-source projects or have contributed to shared tooling
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Backstage team at Spotify where we’re building a developer platform that helps organizations improve their developer experience—and we’re moving fast
- As part of our growing engineering team, you’ll help design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure behind our external developer portal product
- You’ll collaborate closely with experienced engineers while gaining hands-on experience with real-world scale, observability, and security challenges in a modern production environment
- 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
- Help maintain and improve the reliability, security, and scalability of Backstage’s infrastructure
- Participate in our on-call rotation and help ensure our systems meet reliability and availability goals
- Collaborate with senior engineers to build infrastructure on GCP and AWS, using Terraform and other infrastructure-as-code tools
- Partner with security and compliance teams to implement guardrails and best practices
- Contribute to operational tooling and automation that helps teams deploy, monitor, and manage their services more effectively
- Operate in a modern web stack environment—our product is built with TypeScript and React—so while this isn’t a frontend-heavy role, you’ll need to be comfortable understanding and supporting fullstack systems
- Participate in planning and delivery of technical projects alongside product and engineering teammates
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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