Site Reliability Engineer, Spotify

$122.7-175.3k

+ Equity. Salary may differ for CAD candidates

AWS

Kubernetes

TypeScript

GCP

Python

Scala

Java

Terraform

Azure

Senior level

New York

Remote from Canada, US

More information about location

Commercial music streaming service

Job no longer available

Commercial music streaming service

1001+ employees

B2CMusicEntertainmentDigital MediaSaaSMobile

Job no longer available

$122.7-175.3k

+ Equity. Salary may differ for CAD candidates

AWS

Kubernetes

TypeScript

GCP

Python

Scala

Java

Terraform

Azure

Senior level

New York

Remote from Canada, US

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2CMusicEntertainmentDigital MediaSaaSMobile

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

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

If you're interested in building out the next revolution in the music industry and helping artists succeed in their careers, come join us!
You have 5+ years of relevant experience
You bring a background in SRE and database technologies, with experience in cloud-native architectures
You have an understanding of various database technologies across platforms like GCP, AWS, and Azure, Druid or another OLAP database is a great to have for this role
You are proficient in Java, with additional skills in Kubernetes, Terraform. Experience with programming languages such as Python, Scala, Go, or TypeScript would be a bonus!
You are a good communicator and an empathetic, attentive listener with the capability to anticipate the needs of partners
You are deeply curious, and enjoy exploring both technical and organizational problems and domains
You are eager to learn new technologies and to expand your area of expertise

What the job involves

Spotify is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Music Technology Platform engineering organization
You will forge new ground in how we help labels and their artists and managers, and help us fulfill our mission of giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art
As a part of a platform-focused team, you will help exemplify, measure and raise the reliability of products and operational capabilities of squads across the Music Mission organization by providing tools and collaborating with teams a distributed database with which to build dynamic data visualizations for artists and labels
You'll work closely with engineers to advocate for sensible, scalable, systems design and share responsibility with them in diagnosing, resolving, and preventing production issues
We are strong believers in engineering teams taking operational responsibility for their products and work hard to support them in this
Design deployments and operate a large distributed database to enable our engineers to build dynamic data products for artists, their teams, labels, and other music industry partners
Monitor, review, and improve the reliability of systems and practices in the Music Mission’s domain
Work closely with the Music Mission analytics squads to assist them in adopting and improving their use of existing tools and practices such as SLOs, alerting, runbooks, synthetic testing, and general observability
Participate in an on-call rotation alongside the engineers who build our products
Analyze incidents involving Music Mission systems
Run our platform with Terraform and Kubernetes

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

Top investors

23% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.2)

Trustpilot (1.6)

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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