Senior Site Reliability Engineer
PNC
Staff Backend Engineer, Home Foundations, Personalization
Spotify
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • New York
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💰 $194,000 - $277,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Join Home PZN and play a pivotal role in shaping the technical vision and architecture of core backend systems that power the Spotify Home page. You’ll work on foundational components that enable the larger Home experience, such as Home Config and Home’s Experimentation strategy. You’ll collaborate with engineering peers to rethink the design of systems that were created years ago, determining how to adapt them to meet the needs of the gen recs, agents and overall better Home experience for Spotify users.
- This is a staff-level individual contributor role, offering the opportunity to shape the direction of Home loading paradigms, page serving, content filtering and content storage.
Requirements
- You’re a current Staff Engineer who has been operating at this level for 1+ years, consistently taking on responsibilities aligned with the role
- You have extensive experience in designing system architectures that include machine learning models as key components in enabling the product experiences.
- You’re comfortable debugging experiment configurations from an engineering enablement and experimental design perspective while also able to lean into statistical concepts such as confidence intervals, p-values and power.
- You have familiarity with different types of experiment setups: isolated vs. overlapping experiments, interaction effects, and holdout strategies
- You’re able to understand end to end system architectures that include machine learning models to enable the larger product
- You have a strong bias to action by building MVPs, prototypes and illustrating ideas through concise documents to drive initiatives forward.
- Accountable to senior tech leadership for meeting our product and technology objectives and managing expectations if those are at risk
- Demonstrated success leading technical initiatives and shaping strategic directions through cross-functional collaboration.
- Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management abilities; comfortable operating at the intersection of science and engineering.
