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Senior Platform/SRE Engineer - Backstage

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Spotify

Senior Platform/SRE Engineer - Backstage

New York, NY

Are you ready to shape the future of developer experience? We're searching for a Senior Platform/Fullstack Engineer to join our Backstage organization. Together, we're creating a pioneering platform that transforms how millions of developers build, scale, and innovate. If the idea of solving big problems at scale while driving developer happiness excites you, then this is the role you've been waiting for.

Backstage is more than just a platform-it's a ground-breaking force in the developer community. Born out of Spotify's quest for better developer tooling, Backstage is now a powerhouse driving the future of developer portals across the globe. From industry titans building internal developer platforms to lean teams looking to skyrocket satisfaction, our solutions set the new gold standard.

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As part of the Backstage team, you'll shape the developer experience for companies big and small, for our thriving open-source community, and for Spotify itself. You'll have the unique opportunity to be at the forefront of developer tooling, driving innovation that touches millions.

What You'll Do

  • Build and operate infrastructure on GCP and AWS, focusing on network connectivity, security, and observability.
  • Design and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions with Terraform, ensuring consistency and reliability.
  • Collaborate with security teams to deliver on compliance, ensuring platform security and trustworthiness.
  • Promote and implement SRE methodologies, enabling smooth deployments, monitoring and short feedback loops to resolve incidents.
  • Take operational responsibility for services, participating in an on-call rotation to ensure uptime.
  • Work closely with multi-functional teams: product, design, sales, marketing, and customer success.
  • Shape technical strategy and deliver impactful, high-visibility projects that transform the developer experience.

Who You Are

  • You bring a blend of technical expertise and a passion for growth. Specifically, you have:
  • Demonstrable experience with SaaS infrastructure, GCP, Distributed Systems, TypeScript, and Node (React experience is a plus!).
  • A Love for Scale: You thrive in distributed systems and know how to design pragmatic solutions.
  • Engineering Passion: Sound practices like continuous delivery and automated testing are second nature.
  • Mentor and Collaborator: Your communication skills inspire teams, and your guidance helps others grow.
  • Always Improving: You embrace feedback, refine processes, and push boundaries.
  • Open-Source Advocate: Contributions to or involvement in open-source communities? Even better.

Where You'll Be

  • For this role, you can be within the EST time zone with a preference to be in New York.
  • Working hours? We operate within the EST zone for collaboration.

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

The United States base range for this position is $156 275-223 350, 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. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Client-provided location(s): New York, NY, USA
Job ID: Spotify-064b159c-ea4b-4aa0-a805-92d82c64b065
Employment Type: Other