Software Engineer – Platform Infrastructure

Spotify

Software Engineer contributing to Backend infrastructure and tooling for Spotify's Platform team. Collaborating with experienced engineers to enhance software delivery through cloud foundations.

Posted 5/11/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-LevelWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesPythonTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and operate components of our multi-cloud foundations across GCP and AWS, including compute, storage, networking, identity, and platform primitives
Own components and features end-to-end: from technical design through implementation, rollout, and on-call
Contribute to developer tooling (CI/CD, build systems, deployment, observability) so engineers ship safely and quickly
Participate in incident management, on-call, and postmortems, using AI assistants to accelerate root cause analysis
Collaborate across Platform and R&D to improve developer productivity
Contribute to Backstage and Portal to simplify cloud and tooling access
Grow through code reviews, design discussions, and collaboration with senior engineers

Requirements

What you’ll need

2+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience working on production systems
Experience building or operating cloud infrastructure (GCP and/or AWS), with familiarity in Terraform and Kubernetes
Proficient in at least one modern language (TypeScript, Java, Go, or Python)
Experience with CI/CD, deployment systems, and observability tooling
Think about systems in terms of reliability, performance, cost, and failure modes
Curious about AI/LLM systems and their application to infrastructure
Take ownership of your work and follow through on problems
Communicate clearly and collaborate effectively across teams
Open to feedback and motivated to grow

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexibility to work from home
Collaborate with experienced engineers
Accessibility accommodations during recruitment process

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend engineeringinfrastructure engineeringcloud infrastructureTerraformKubernetesTypeScriptJavaGoPythonCI/CD

Soft Skills

ownershipcommunicationcollaborationcuriosityfeedback receptivenessmotivation to grow