Spotify

Staff Engineer - Content Intelligence Infrastructure

New York, NY · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$203k-$291kDetected 55 days ago

PythonJavaScalaMachine LearningLLMsLeadershipCollaborationMentoringAdaptability

About the role

That means turning complexity into clarity across hundreds of touchpoints-from our mobile and desktop apps to the smart speakers, TVs, cars, and integrations where Spotify shows up every day.
This enables automation, safety, and entirely new product experiences.
You'll help shape infrastructure strategy across the product area while partnering with senior engineers, product leaders, and cross-functional teams to execute on long-term technical investments.

You understand the challenges of building systems that process high-volume multimedia or real-time workloads
The Experience team designs Spotify's consumer experience-end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration.
We bring deep insight into human behavior, design, and technology to craft experiences that feel intuitive, expressive, and unmistakably Spotify.
We build systems that create deep, machine-readable understanding of content across audio, video, text, and images before it reaches users.
Our work powers content enrichment, quality analysis, annotation platforms, and scalable intelligence systems that allow teams across Spotify to build without needing direct content understanding expertise.
We're now looking for a Staff Engineer to help build and scale foundational infrastructure powering content understanding across Spotify.

You have strong technical judgment and can balance scalability, reliability, cost, and product needs effectively
You have strong programming experience in Java, Python, and/or Scala
You can demonstrate a good understanding of the quality scale and cost trade-offs of these technologies.
You are comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and helping shape technical direction from the ground up
You have experience leading complex technical initiatives that span multiple teams or organizational areas
Experience working in startup environments or early-stage product areas where ownership and adaptability are critical is highly valued

Exposure to search infrastructure, recommendation systems, or audio processing systems is a strong plus

The United States base range for this position is $203,410–290,586 USD, plus equity.

Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world.
The Content Intelligence Product Area is a core part of Spotify's Content Platform within the Experience mission.

This listing is sourced directly from Spotify's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.