Backend Engineer - Platform Developer Experience

The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers.

What if the systems you built changed how millions of developers work — not just at Spotify, but across the industry?

You’ll join the AI Fleet Management team within Platform Developer Experience. We’re building the next generation of fleet management — evolving proven internal capabilities into a scalable experience that ships externally through Portal, Spotify’s developer platform built on Backstage.

Our platform enables engineering teams to execute safe, automated, fleet-wide changes across thousands of repositories and environments. From mature platform engineering organizations to teams investing in developer experience for the first time, we’re delivering tooling that improves reliability, automation, and developer satisfaction at scale.

If you’re excited about building systems that directly improve how developers ship and maintain software, this is your opportunity to have meaningful impact while growing your skills.

What You'll Do

• Build and evolve backend services that power AI Fleet Management across Spotify and Portal’s external customers
• Design scalable distributed systems that support safe, observable, and repeatable fleet-wide changes
• Integrate AI-native capabilities into backend workflows using modern LLM tooling and agent-based automation
• Develop services across a polyglot backend stack including Java, Python, and Node.js
• Take ownership of well-scoped services end-to-end, including participating in operational support and on-call rotation
• Collaborate with product, design, and go-to-market partners to shape practical, customer-facing platform capabilities
• Contribute to strong engineering fundamentals including automated testing, observability, reliability, and continuous delivery
• Help evolve internal and external APIs, SDKs, and platform primitives used daily by other engineers

Who You Are

• You have 3+ years of experience building backend services and distributed systems
• You have strong experience in Java and Python and are comfortable working in a polyglot environment that includes Node.js
• You have experience designing and operating production systems with reliability and scalability in mind
• You are comfortable taking ownership of services from implementation through production support
• You think beyond just services — you care about developer experience and how APIs, tooling, and workflows are consumed
• You practice continuous delivery, automated testing, and clean engineering habits
• You communicate clearly and collaborate effectively across engineering and cross-functional teams

Where You'll Be

• This role is based in New York, NY
• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.

The United States base range for this position is $132,949–$189,927 USD, 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, paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. 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. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.