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
Design, build, and evolve the C++ integration layer that powers Spotify’s: audio and video playback on TV devices running our new Rust runtime
Integrate Spotify’s playback experience with platform-native media frameworks: such as AVPlayer, ExoPlayer, or equivalent TV player stacks
Own critical playback areas including buffering strategies, playback state: handling, A/V synchronization, adaptive bitrate configuration, track selection, and rendering paths
Debug complex performance and reliability issues across multiple layers: from application logic to OS-level frameworks and hardware acceleration
Partner closely with Playback platform teams and device teams to ensure: shared APIs and designs translate cleanly into real-world TV implementations
Improve test coverage, tooling, and observability to detect regressions and speed up iteration cycles
What they're looking for
- You have strong of experience building low-level systems in C++, ideally: within video, media, or playback domains
- You have hands-on experience integrating native playback frameworks such as: AVPlayer, ExoPlayer, vendor SDKs, or similar media stacks
- You have a deep understanding of video playback fundamentals including: codecs, streaming formats, adaptive bitrate (ABR), buffering behavior, and A/V synchronization trade-offs
- You are comfortable working close to the OS and media framework layer and: diagnosing issues that span multiple system boundaries
- You have experience contributing to the design and evolution of scalable technical systems across platforms
- You are confident debugging performance and reliability issues using logs,: traces, profilers, and system diagnostics tools
- You collaborate effectively across teams and communicate technical trade-offs clearly
- You care deeply about delivering reliable, high-quality playback experiences for millions of users
