Backend Engineer, Core Infrastructure
Description For Backend Engineer, Core Infrastructure
Spotify is seeking a Backend Engineer for their Core Infrastructure team within the Platform department. This role is crucial in creating the technology ecosystem that enables Spotify's engineering teams to deliver quickly while scaling safely to a billion customers. The team's mission is to enable Spotify Developers to efficiently and reliably deliver products by removing deployment effort. You'll design and develop scalable backend services, build infrastructure and deployment pipelines, and collaborate in a cross-functional team. The role requires experience in Go, Python, or Java, and involves working with containers and Kubernetes. This position offers a competitive salary range of $122,716-$175,308, plus equity and comprehensive benefits, making it an excellent opportunity for experienced backend engineers looking to make an impact at a global scale.
Responsibilities For Backend Engineer, Core Infrastructure
- Design, develop and deploy backend services that scale, are highly available, and are easy to extend
- Build and operate infrastructure, user tooling, and deployment pipelines
- Collaborate closely with other specialists in an autonomous, cross-functional team
- Take operational responsibility for the services owned by your team, including on-call rotation
Requirements For Backend Engineer, Core Infrastructure
- 3+ years of proven experience working as a backend engineer
- Collaborative team player in a dynamic, autonomous, cross-functional agile team
- Experience in designing, analyzing, optimizing code, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- Experience in writing distributed, high-performance services in Golang or Python
- Systematic problem-solving approach, effective communication skills, and a strong drive to succeed
- Enthusiasm for working on a team where you constantly learn, experiment, and iterate quickly
Benefits For Backend Engineer, Core Infrastructure
- Health insurance
- Six month paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Monthly meal allowance
- 23 paid days off
- 13 paid flexible holidays
- Paid sick leave
- Equity
