Senior Software Engineer

Design, build, deploy, and operate scalable backend services that power authorization, permissions, and team management across Spotify.

Take ownership of critical systems that enable creators, teams, agents, licensors, and other partners to securely access and manage the right content and capabilities.

Evolve our backend architecture to support continued growth in users, use cases, and Spotify products while maintaining high standards for reliability, performance, and security.

Improve the systems and workflows that enable creators to gain access to their content, profiles, and teams.

You have deep experience designing, building, and operating backend services, with strong knowledge of Java or comparable backend technologies.

You have experience owning distributed, high-scale, or business-critical systems where reliability, performance, and security matter.

You have experience working with relational databases at scale, including performance optimization and database tuning.

You think beyond individual services and can reason about architecture, APIs, dependencies, data flows, and the impact technical decisions have across a broader platform.