Senior Backend Engineer, Music

• Design, build, and operate backend services and data pipelines that power Spotify Rights Center, a rights management platform comparable in scope to YouTube Content ID. • Help evolve the platform architecture as it expands to more licensors, territories, and content types. • Join a team that shipped SRC from inception to a fully operational production platform and is scaling as an area of strategic investment over the next 2 to 5 years.

• Have strong experience designing and building distributed, high-volume services in Java or similar languages. • Be comfortable with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and event-driven architectures such as Pub/Sub. • Have experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases and understand data modelling trade-offs. • Be accustomed to supporting production systems and apply learnings from prior incidents when building new features. • Own solutions end to end from scoping through deployment and production monitoring. • Ensure quality through modern testing, debugging, and automation techniques. • Have a solid understanding of object-oriented and functional programming paradigms. • Proactively identify tech debt and work with your team to get it prioritised. • Care about software architecture across the full stack and the APIs that connect systems together.

• Have experience with Bazel, GCP services such as Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, and BigQuery, and data pipeline tools such as Scio, Scala, and Flyte. • Have familiarity with rights management, content moderation, or 0-to-1 product work.

• Design, build, and operate backend services and data pipelines that power Spotify Rights Center. • Partner closely with product, insights, design, and engineering peers to understand the needs of external rightsholders and internal partners. • Deliver scalable, testable, maintainable backend systems with strong operational ownership. • Help evolve the platform architecture including shifts from batch processing toward event-driven patterns. • Support timely delivery of technical solutions aligned to business needs. • Contribute to modern engineering practices including agile ways of working and healthy engineering standards. • Integrate with Spotify broader content and moderation ecosystem as needed. • Collaborate on product ideation with specialists, researchers, product managers, and subject-matter experts.

• Work flexibly from anywhere in the EMEA region within Central European and GMT time zones. • Access extensive learning opportunities through the dedicated GreenHouse team. • Receive flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in success. • Benefit from 6 months global parental leave for all new parents. • Access All The Feels employee assistance programme and self-care hub. • Swap public holidays flexibly according to your values and beliefs.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in 2008. The Music Mission team owns the end-to-end proposition for music creators and the experiences they create for fans. The Rights Systems team builds and operates Spotify Rights Center, a rights management platform that enables Spotify and its partners to identify, manage, and enforce music licensing rights across all content.