Senior Software Engineer - Platform Infrastructure
About The Position
The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers. The Platform Developer Experience (PDX) studio builds the infrastructure and internal products that power how Spotify engineers ship software. Within PDX and Backstage Product Area, the Platform Infrastructure team is building the next generation of cloud and compute foundations that power our internal developer platform and the AI agents running on top of it, and help bring those capabilities to market through Portal, Spotify's external developer platform built on Backstage. You'll join the Platform Infrastructure team within the Backstage Product Area. The team owns the cloud foundations, developer tooling and security posture that the rest of Platform, and ultimately all of Spotify R&D, depends on. You’ll collaborate closely with experienced engineers (both human and AI-assisted) while operating at real-world scale, with deep observability, strong safety boundaries, and the unique reliability challenges of agentic production systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience
- Deep experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS), Terraform, and Kubernetes
- Proficient in a modern programming language
- Strong experience with CI/CD and developer platforms
- Think in distributed systems and understand trade-offs
- Familiar with AI/LLM systems and their application to infrastructure
- Take ownership of outcomes and drive impact
- Communicate clearly and navigate complex trade-offs
- Foster inclusive, collaborative environments
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate multi-cloud foundations across GCP and AWS
- Own platform components end-to-end with a strong bar for reliability and security
- Improve developer tooling and platform self-service capabilities
- Build secure-by-default infrastructure patterns
- Drive operational excellence through incident management and automation
- Collaborate across Platform and R&D to improve developer productivity
- Contribute to Backstage and Portal
- Mentor engineers and raise engineering quality
Benefits
- health insurance
- six-month paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- monthly meal allowance
- 23 paid days off
- paid flexible holidays
- paid sick leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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