Backend Engineer, Core Infrastructure

at  Spotify

Backend
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 frameworks, capabilities and tools needed to welcome a billion customers. Join us and help to amplify productivity, quality and innovation across Spotify.
Location
London
Job type
Permanent
We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join the Core Infrastructure team, owning Databases at Spotify. Core Infrastructure’s goal is to provide world-class cloud-native infrastructure to Spotify’s engineers. Our mission is to build a scalable storage platform that enables our engineers to focus more on creating valuable features for Spotify’s listeners and creators and less on storage technologies. You will engage with peers and internal customers to understand workloads and provide a great user experience for engineers interacting with our database layer. Our goal is to make our persistent database layer scalable, resilient and secure to a point that operational responsibility is a very small burden on users.

What You’ll Do

• Build the future of Storage by moving up the Stack: Work towards making Spotify’s persistent storage layer more user-friendly, simple and automated
• Engage with Peers and Customers: Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand engineering needs and optimize database interactions
• Focus on User Experience: Ensure that operational responsibilities regarding databases are minimized for Spotify engineers
• Generate Insights from data: Use data analytics to improve system performance and provide actionable insights for continuous improvement

Who You Are

• You are proficient in Java, with additional skills in Kubernetes, Terraform. Experience with programming languages such as Python, Scala, Go, or TypeScript would be a bonus!
• You bring a background in DevOps and database technologies, with experience in cloud-native architectures
• You have an understanding of various storage technologies across platforms like GCP, AWS, and Azure, including specific knowledge of storage optimization in K/V store and cost management
• You are a good communicator and an empathetic, attentive listener with the capability to anticipate the needs of partners
• You are eager to learn new technologies and to expand your area of expertise

Where You’ll Be

• For this role you will be based in London, UK

Our global benefits
Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.
Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.
Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents.
All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.
Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.
Learn about life at Spotify
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.
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.

• Build the future of Storage by moving up the Stack: Work towards making Spotify’s persistent storage layer more user-friendly, simple and automated
• Engage with Peers and Customers: Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand engineering needs and optimize database interactions
• Focus on User Experience: Ensure that operational responsibilities regarding databases are minimized for Spotify engineers
• Generate Insights from data: Use data analytics to improve system performance and provide actionable insights for continuous improvemen