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Senior Backend Engineer - Content Platform

Job Overview

We receive industry-standard deliveries, validate them, and turn them into the catalog data that teams across Spotify build on, including lyrics, rights and supply data.

Key points

  1. Build and run the backend services and data pipelines that ingest, validate and process music deliveries from partners, covering audio, metadata…

  2. Own large parts of the ingestion pipeline and lead technical work as we add video, richer partner data and other new content.

  3. Make ingestion more reliable, catch data quality problems at the point of entry, and improve the operational tooling around the pipeline.

  4. Design and evolve APIs and schemas that other teams depend on, keeping contracts stable and backward compatible.

  5. You have strong experience building and operating backend services and data pipelines in production at scale, ideally in Java, Scala or Go.

  6. You have designed APIs and handled schema evolution and backward compatibility in systems where other teams rely on stable contracts.

  7. You’re comfortable modelling data for auditability, versioning and efficient querying and understand the tradeoffs between real-time and batch processing.

  8. You lead projects from discovery to handover, make sound technical decisions, and mentor others.

Skills

ETLJavaGoogle CloudRoadmapping

Experience: Senior-level · Job type: Full-time

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