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Spotify

Senior Backend Engineer – Platform Developer Experience

Spotify

Senior Backend Engineer creating AI-powered systems for Spotify, improving developer workflows and shared infrastructure across teams.

Posted 5/26/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudDistributed SystemsKubernetesPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Build and scale backend platforms that power AI agents and MCP servers across Spotify
  • Design reliable infrastructure for orchestration, lifecycle management, monitoring, and deployment of AI-powered systems
  • Define platform standards, tooling, and best practices that support secure, scalable, and high-quality agent development
  • Develop evaluation frameworks including automated testing pipelines, benchmarks, and quality metrics for AI systems
  • Improve observability through monitoring, logging, tracing, and performance analysis across distributed systems
  • Build APIs, SDKs, templates, and self-service tools that improve the developer experience for teams building with AI
  • Partner with engineers and cross-functional teams across Spotify to align on architecture, platform capabilities, and operational excellence
  • Contribute to technical direction and help evolve the foundations of Spotify’s internal AI ecosystem

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • You have experience building and operating large-scale backend or platform infrastructure in cloud-native environments
  • You are experienced with Kubernetes, distributed systems, and modern infrastructure tooling
  • You understand how AI agents, orchestration frameworks, and LLM-powered applications work in production environments
  • You know how to design testing strategies, evaluation frameworks, and quality measurements for complex systems
  • You have experience building APIs, developer platforms, integration layers, or connectivity protocols at scale
  • You are comfortable working with observability tooling and improving reliability, scalability, and system performance
  • You write clean, maintainable code in languages such as Python or TypeScript
  • You communicate clearly, collaborate effectively across teams, and enjoy solving problems with others
  • You care about creating intuitive developer experiences and enabling teams to move faster with confidence

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones.
  • Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace.
  • We are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

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Hard Skills & Tools
backend developmentcloud-native environmentsKubernetesdistributed systemsAI agentsorchestration frameworksAPIsPythonTypeScriptautomated testing
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingdeveloper experience focus