Backend Systems Developer for Scalable Infrastructure

4 weeks ago


New York, New York, United States Spotify Full time
Join Spotify's Platform Department

The Platform department at Spotify is responsible for building the technology ecosystem that enables our engineering teams to deliver quickly, safely, and easily scale 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.

Your Role

You will design, develop, and deploy backend services that scale, are highly available, and are easy to extend. You will build and operate infrastructure, user tooling, and deployment pipelines.

As a team, we mostly build tools that deploy Containers to Kubernetes and GKE; the languages we primarily use are Golang, Python, and Java. You will collaborate closely with other specialists and become a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team.

You will take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including taking part in an on-call rotation.

Your Qualifications

You should have 3+ years of proven experience working as a backend engineer and a willingness to grow. You should be a collaborative team player in a dynamic, autonomous, cross-functional agile team that inspires others.

You should be experienced in designing, analyzing, optimizing code, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems. You should be experienced in writing distributed, high-performance services in Golang or Python.

You should possess a systematic problem-solving approach, effective communication skills, and a strong drive to succeed. You should be enthusiastic about working on a team where you constantly learn, experiment, and iterate quickly.

Location and Compensation

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

The estimated salary for this position is between $122,716 and $175,308, plus equity. This range encompasses multiple levels. Leveling is determined during the interview process. Placement in a level depends on relevant work history and interview performance.

Benefits

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.



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