Spotify
Senior Software Engineer
Toronto · Senior
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About the role
- What began by supporting Spotify for Artists has grown into foundational capabilities used across Spotify, including Music, Podcasts, and Audiobooks.
- This is a backend-focused role working on systems that sit on a critical path for Spotify's creator ecosystem.
- You'll help us evolve these systems as they grow in scale and complexity, bringing strong backend engineering expertise while collaborating across product, frontend, and data when needed.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and operate scalable backend services that power authorization, permissions, and team management across Spotify.
- Take ownership of critical systems that enable creators, teams, agents, licensors, and other partners to securely access and manage the right content and capabilities.
- Evolve our backend architecture to support continued growth in users, use cases, and Spotify products while maintaining high standards for reliability, performance, and security.
- Partner with engineers and cross-functional collaborators across Spotify to understand authorization needs and build reusable platform capabilities.
- Raise engineering quality through strong technical judgment, design discussions, operational excellence, and knowledge sharing across the team.
Requirements
- You have experience owning distributed, high-scale, or business-critical systems where reliability, performance, and security matter.
- You have experience working with relational databases at scale, including performance optimization and database tuning.
- You have experience working in a product-driven environment and connect technical decisions to user and business outcomes.
- You are comfortable contributing across the stack when needed, while your strongest expertise is in backend engineering.
- 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.
Company info
- Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers.
- Where You'll Be: - This role is based in Toronto - We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best!
- At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone.
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