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EngineeringManager-PlatformInfrastructure
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“Engineering Manager - Platform Infrastructure at Spotify. Skills: Cloud Infrastructure Management, Platform Engineering, Developer Experience, Team Leadership, AI Integration. Lead and grow a team of AI-native engineers responsible for Platform’s multi-cloud foundation across GCP and AWS, our security posture, and the developer platform. Define the technical vision for our cloud platform”
What You'll Achieve.
Enable rapid growth in users and business; Make the business creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers; Ensure secure-by-default outcomes for every team building on top of us; Engineers ship safely and quickly along golden paths instead of bespoke setups; Bring capabilities to market through Portal; Revolutionizing the way the world listens
Industry & Context.
Must be within the North Americas region, Team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3+ years of experience leading engineering teams working on cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or developer tooling at scale, 5+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience, deep expertise in cloud platforms (GCP, AWS), grounding in platform security: IAM, secrets management, vulnerability and patch management, and supply chain security, solid command of modern developer tooling (CI/CD, build systems, deployment patterns, observability), track record of designing and operating distributed systems where reliability, cost, and security trade-offs are first-class concerns, communicate clearly across engineers, product, security, and executive stakeholders, explaining complex trade-offs and earning alignment without losing nuance, create inclusive environments where diverse perspectives strengthen technical and product decisions, actively seek feedback and invest in growing yourself and your team
Nice to Have
familiar with AI and LLM-based systems, and you have a point of view on how agents and automation can be responsibly applied to infrastructure operations
What You'll Do.
Lead and grow a team of AI-native engineers responsible for Platform’s multi-cloud foundation across GCP and AWS
and the developer platform
Define the technical vision for our cloud platform
Make architectural calls that shape how the rest of R&D builds
Own the security and compliance posture of the developer platform end-to-end
Drive the evolution of our developer tooling stack (CI/CD
Bring AI-native capabilities into platform operations
integrating LLM and agent-based automation into infrastructure changes
and developer workflows
and engineering teams to bring our capabilities to market
Set and enforce production-grade standards for reliability
and cost-efficiency across services operating at Spotify scale
Build a team culture grounded in curiosity
and continuous learning in emerging AI systems
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with product, go-to-market, and engineering teams; Communicate clearly across engineers, product, security, and executive stakeholders
Communication Scope
Communicate clearly across engineers, product, security, and executive stakeholders; Explaining complex trade-offs; Earning alignment without losing nuance
Full Job Description
## Description 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? The Platform Developer Experience (PDX) team builds the infrastructure and internal products that power how Spotify engineers ship software. Within PDX, the Platform Infrastructure team is building the next generation of cloud and compute foundations that power our internal developer platform and the AI agents running on top of it, and help bring those capabilities to market through Portal, Spotify's external developer platform built on Backstage. You'll join the Platform Infrastructure team within the Platform Developer Experience (PDX) studio. The team owns the cloud foundations, security posture, and developer tooling that the rest of Platform, and ultimately all of Spotify R&D, depends on. You'll lead a team working at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, platform security, and developer experience. ## What You'll Do Lead and grow a team of AI-native engineers responsible for Platform’s multi-cloud foundation across GCP and AWS, our security posture, and the developer platform that thousands of Spotify engineers depend on every day. Define the technical vision for our cloud platform, and make the architectural calls that shape how the rest of R&D builds, ships, and operates. Own the security and compliance posture of the developer platform end-to-end, ensuring secure-by-default outcomes for every team building on top of us. Drive the evolution of our developer tooling stack (CI/CD, build systems, deployment, observability) so engineers ship safely and quickly along golden paths instead of bespoke se
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