Backend Engineer, Core Infrastructure
About the Role
Join Spotify's Platform department, where we create the technology ecosystem that enables our engineering teams to deliver quickly, while safely and easily scaling to a billion customers. Our team consists of eight organizational units, known as 'Studios', which reflect the needs and groupings of our internal customers.
Our mission is to enable Spotify Developers to efficiently and reliably deliver products by removing the effort to deploy. We support our internal customers to ship code faster, more frequently, and with greater confidence. Our goal is to make Spotify’s backend scalable, resilient, and predictable, to the point where operational responsibility is a minimal burden on users.
What You'll Do
- 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. We mostly build tools that deploy Containers to Kubernetes and GKE; the languages we primarily use are Golang, Python, and Java.
- Collaborate closely with other specialists and become a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team.
- Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including taking part in an on-call rotation.
- Bring your whole self to work and strive to foster an environment that supports your individual growth.
Who You Are
- You have 3+ years of proven experience working as a backend engineer and a willingness to grow.
- A collaborative team player in a dynamic, autonomous, cross-functional agile team that inspires others.
- Experienced in designing, analyzing, optimizing code, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
- Experienced in writing distributed, high-performance services in Golang or Python.
- Possess a systematic problem-solving approach, effective communication skills, and a strong drive to succeed.
- Enthusiastic about working on a team where you constantly learn, experiment, and iterate quickly.
Where You'll Be
- For this role, you can be within the EST time zone with a strong preference to be in New York.
- Working hours? We operate within the EST zone for collaboration.
Compensation and Benefits
The United States base range for this position is $122,716-$175,308, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave. This range encompasses multiple levels. Leveling is determined during the interview process. Placement in a level depends on relevant work history and interview performance. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- 401(k)
- Medical insurance
- Six month paid parental leave
- Monthly meal allowance
- 23 paid days off
- 13 paid flexible holidays
- Paid sick leave
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