Staff Backend Engineer

Teknik, data och digitalt · Mjukvaru- och webbutveckling · Backend · Mjukvaruutveckling

I korthet

Spotify søger en erfaren Staff Backend Engineer til at definere den tekniske retning for policenforcement-infrastruktur på Content Platform-teamet. Du vil designe og udvikle skalerbare systemer og fungere som en mentor for andre ingeniører.

Ansvarsområden

Define the technical direction for policy enforcement infrastructure
Architect enforcement capabilities as a shared platform
Design and evolve multi-signal orchestration systems
Build the data foundation for durable and reusable enforcement decisions
Own API and contract decisions, including schema design and versioning
Establish integration standards for onboarding teams and execute migrations
Influence architecture across detection, signal processing, and enforcement workflows
Mentor engineers and set the bar for API design, data modeling, and compliance consequences

Krav

Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, APIs, event-driven pipelines, rule engines, and decision systems
Proficient in backend engineering at scale, with strong command of languages like Java, Kotlin, Go, or similar
Comfortable owning data models, service contracts, and storage layer decisions
Experienced with stream processing and event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pub/Sub, or equivalent)
Experience with workflow orchestration and distributed coordination
Experienced with relational and non-relational storage systems
Understand platform engineering patterns: multi-tenant APIs, configurable rule engines, policy-driven actioning systems
Familiar with observability and operational excellence
Experience in regulated or compliance-adjacent environments
Comfortable in polyglot environments
Think in systems end-to-end

Önskade kvalifikationer

Understand the tradeoffs between batch and real-time enforcement pipelines
Designed systems where schema and contract stability matter as much as correctness
Understand the tradeoffs between different orchestration methods
Know how to model enforcement data for auditability, immutability, and efficient querying at scale
Understand the difference between building for one team and building for many
Understand distributed tracing, structured logging, alerting, and tooling
Understand how infrastructure design decisions, log retention, schema choices, data lineage, carry legal and audit consequences
Navigate existing systems thoughtfully rather than defaulting to greenfield rewrites

Förmåner

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 - 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

Färdigheter

JavaKotlinGoKafkaPub/SubTemporalAirflow

#backend#engineering#platform#distributed systems#apis#event-driven architecture#rule engines#compliance#data modeling#observability

Om Spotify

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