Spotify
Platform
SeniorBackendEngineer-PlatformDeveloperExperience
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“Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Developer Experience at Spotify. Skills: Backend Platforms, AI Agents, Cloud-native, Kubernetes. Build and scale backend platforms. Design reliable infrastructure”
What You'll Achieve.
Enable teams to move faster with confidence
Industry & Context.
Enjoy solving problems with others
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
experience building and operating large-scale backend or platform infrastructure in cloud-native environments, experienced with Kubernetes, experienced with distributed systems, experienced with modern infrastructure tooling, understand how AI agents, orchestration frameworks, and LLM-powered applications work in production environments, know how to design testing strategies, evaluation frameworks, and quality measurements for complex systems, experience building APIs, experience building developer platforms, experience building integration layers, experience building connectivity protocols at scale, comfortable working with observability tooling, comfortable improving reliability, comfortable improving scalability, comfortable improving system performance, write clean, maintainable code in languages such as Python or TypeScript, communicate clearly, collaborate effectively across teams, enjoy solving problems with others, care about creating intuitive developer experiences, enable teams to move faster with confidence
Nice to Have
experience with Python, experience with TypeScript
What You'll Do.
Build and scale backend platforms
Design reliable infrastructure
Define platform standards
Develop evaluation frameworks
Improve observability
and self-service tools
Partner with engineers and cross-functional teams
Contribute to technical direction
Help evolve foundations of AI ecosystem
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate effectively across teams; Partner with engineers and cross-functional teams
Communication Scope
Communicate clearly
Full Job Description
## What You'll do Build and scale backend platforms that power AI agents and MCP servers across Spotify Design reliable infrastructure for orchestration, lifecycle management, monitoring, and deployment of AI-powered systems Define platform standards, tooling, and best practices that support secure, scalable, and high-quality agent development Develop evaluation frameworks including automated testing pipelines, benchmarks, and quality metrics for AI systems Improve observability through monitoring, logging, tracing, and performance analysis across distributed systems Build APIs, SDKs, templates, and self-service tools that improve the developer experience for teams building with AI Partner with engineers and cross-functional teams across Spotify to align on architecture, platform capabilities, and operational excellence Contribute to technical direction and help evolve the foundations of Spotify’s internal AI ecosystem ## Who You Are You have experience building and operating large-scale backend or platform infrastructure in cloud-native environments You are experienced with Kubernetes, distributed systems, and modern infrastructure tooling You understand how AI agents, orchestration frameworks, and LLM-powered applications work in production environments You know how to design testing strategies, evaluation frameworks, and quality measurements for complex systems You have experience building APIs, developer platforms, integration layers, or connectivity protocols at scale You are comfortable working with observability tooling and improving reliability, scalability, and system performance You write clean, maintainable code in languages such as Python or TypeScript You communicate clearly, collaborate effectively across teams, and enjoy solving problems with others You care about creating intuitive developer experiences and enabling teams to move faster with confidence ## Where You'll Be This role is based in London or Stockholm We offer you the flexibility to work w
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