The opportunity
We design Spotify’s consumer experience—end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration. Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world.
What you'll do
Build and run the backend services and data pipelines that ingest, validate: and process music deliveries from partners, covering audio, metadata, lyrics and new content types
Own large parts of the ingestion pipeline and lead technical work as we add: video, richer partner data and other new content
Make ingestion more reliable, catch data quality problems at the point of: entry, and improve the operational tooling around the pipeline
Design and evolve APIs and schemas that other teams depend on, keeping: contracts stable and backward compatible
Help move validation towards real time and make Silk Road a well-documented, self-serve platform
Deliver roadmap work, take part in planning, review code, and share on-call
What they're looking for
- You have strong experience building and operating backend services and data: pipelines in production at scale, ideally in Java, Scala or Go
- You have designed APIs and handled schema evolution and backward: compatibility in systems where other teams rely on stable contracts
- You’re comfortable modelling data for auditability, versioning and efficient: querying and understand the tradeoffs between real-time and batch processing
- You lead projects from discovery to handover, make sound technical decisions, and mentor others
- You may have worked with content ingestion, metadata standards such as DDEX,: B2B partner integrations, rights or compliance-sensitive data, lyrics or time-synced data, or GCP.
