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Backend Engineer - Core Infrastructure

AT Spotify
Spotify

Backend Engineer - Core Infrastructure

Stockholm, Sweden

We are looking for junior to mid-level Backend Engineers to join Spotify's Core Infrastructure team. You will contribute to the development and optimization of the foundational infrastructure that powers the Spotify platform. This is a highly impactful role and you will be developing the systems that enable Spotify's engineering teams to deliver robust solutions quickly and efficiently to meet the demands of over a billion customers. You'll design, build and develop scalable infrastructure, services and tools, and collaborate in a cross-functional team.

What You'll Do

  • As a part of a collaborative agile team, you will help improve the core infrastructure systems that are the foundation of the rest of Spotify's backend
  • You will build, support and operate important central services and systems, ensuring high reliability and high scalability
  • Work with technologies that are at the forefront of the current tech landscape at Spotify scale (supporting thousands of developers and over a billion customers)
  • Participating in an on-call rotation as part of the operational responsibility for services maintained by the team

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Who You Are

  • You are an enthusiastic engineer with an interest in building backend infrastructure
  • You are proficient in Java, with a willingness to pick up other programming languages. Experience with cloud-based environments, CI/CD practices, Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code is a plus
  • You are eager to learn new technologies and to expand your area of expertise
  • You have a passion for learning, experimenting and working with new technologies, while adapting quickly

Where You'll Be

  • You'll be based in Stockholm, Sweden

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

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 with a community of more than 500 million users.

Client-provided location(s): Stockholm, Sweden
Job ID: Spotify-79fc10c6-ab90-4e48-bfcb-92af79a7cc10
Employment Type: Other