Senior Backend Engineer- Platform Development Experience

Engineering Backend

Do you love being in the flow as a developer and want to enable that for everyone else as well? Do you believe that the key to personal flow is in making the local developer build experience fast, well-integrated, automated and with meaningful insights? We are seeking a collaborative and curious Sr Engineer to help drive and develop our CI infrastructure forward.

Location

London

Job type

Permanent Continuous Integration (CI) and our Version Control System (VCS) is the heartbeat of the developer experience. Spotify's extensive growth serving 1 Billion customers has led to us closing in on operational limits, and we hence need to improve our stack and automate certain workflows in order to continue providing our engineering teams with flawless builds, integrated insights, fast local iteration time and evolve our repo structure for speed and safety. This role will be part of a team collaboratively creating and owning our CI and VCS infrastructure for Spotify which aims to provide our developers with a streamlined, simple to use and safe build experience at scale. This will also include operationally being responsible for the systems and collaborating seamlessly with our partner CI vendors. The role is located in the Platform Developer Experience (PDX) R&D Studio within the Platform Mission. The PDX R&D Studio oversees and owns the infrastructure that cuts across all engineering subject areas at Spotify.

What You'll Do

• Execute on Spotify’s future CI infrastructure strategy that is able to serve 3000+ engineers doing 100’s of thousands of builds daily and beyond
• Architect, design, develop, deploy and operate services and systems that provide the best developer experience possible
• Collaborate with Infrastructure teams across the company to discover what a best in class CI infrastructure means.
• Drive the automation and improvements of our chosen CI across our current technical stacks.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring of engineering staff to ensure internal growth.
• Help scale our CI infrastructure to support our automated systems making mass changes across our fleet of services.
• Deliver testable, maintainable and high-quality code and take operational responsibility for the components that you develop

Who You Are

• You are an experienced Software Engineer with Java, familiarity with Nodejs would be a bonus
• You have experience deploying to and implementing solutions in kubernetes.
• You believe in iteration and know that finding the right solution is more important than the first.
• You like to focus on standardization and automation; always looking for ways to improve the developer experience
• You have 6+ years of experience in building and implementing large-scale systems across various projects and teams
• You have familiarity with and enthusiasm for software engineering best practices such as testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery

Where you'll be

• This position will be based in the UK

Our global benefits

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 - fully paid - 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.

Learn about life at Spotify

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. 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. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.