The opportunity
Content Platform is responsible for ingesting, processing, storing, and delivering every piece of content on Spotify — from music and podcasts to audiobooks. Within Content Platform, the Media domain owns the end-to-end media pipeline, from the moment content arrives through to…
What you'll do
Define and drive the long-term architectural direction for Spotify's media pipeline across Content Platform.
Lead large-scale technical initiatives that span multiple squads and: organizations, including projects such as media delivery, codec rollouts, and future playback capabilities.
Partner closely with engineering managers, product managers, and senior: engineers to align technical strategy with product priorities, reliability goals, and cost efficiency, acting as a key technical counterpart for media architecture.
Guide architectural decisions across media ingestion, transcoding, packaging,: storage, content delivery, and playback.
Author and review RFCs, architecture decision records, and technical design: documents that guide engineering teams and leadership.
Mentor senior engineers across the organization, helping raise technical: quality, architectural thinking, and engineering excellence.
What they're looking for
- You have deep expertise building large-scale media platforms spanning audio,: video, encoding, transcoding, packaging, delivery, and playback technologies.
- You have successfully led architecture across multiple engineering teams and: influenced technical direction beyond your immediate organization.
- You have significant experience designing and operating distributed systems: at internet scale, including high-throughput media processing, large-scale storage, and globally distributed delivery infrastructure.
- You understand the architectural trade-offs between codecs, packaging: formats, playback technologies, storage, networking, and infrastructure costs.
- You have a strong track record of leading multi-quarter technical initiatives: from initial proposal through implementation and organization-wide adoption.
- You communicate technical ideas clearly through well-structured RFCs, design: documents, and architectural decision records.
- You build trust through collaboration and technical credibility, bringing: together teams with different priorities to deliver shared outcomes.
- You enjoy mentoring experienced engineers and helping organizations grow their technical capability.
