Senior Backend Engineer - Content Platform

Описание

This role at Spotify focuses on building and operating backend services and data pipelines for the Content Platform team, which is responsible for ingesting, validating, and processing music content from labels, distributors, and other partners.

Responsibilities

• Build and run the backend services and data pipelines that ingest, validate and process music deliveries from partners, covering audio, metadata, lyrics and new content types
• Own large parts of the ingestion pipeline and lead technical work as new content types and partner data are added
• Make ingestion more reliable, catch data quality problems at the point of entry, and improve the operational tooling around the pipeline
• Design and evolve APIs and schemas that other teams depend on, keeping contracts stable and backward compatible
• Help move validation towards real time and make Silk Road a well-documented, self-serve platform
• Deliver roadmap work, take part in planning, review code, and share on-call
• Work with Content Ops, operations tooling teams, partner teams and the product teams that build on content

Requirements

• Strong experience building and operating backend services and data pipelines in production at scale, ideally in Java, Scala or Go
• Designed APIs and handled schema evolution and backward compatibility in systems where other teams rely on stable contracts
• Comfortable modelling data for auditability, versioning and efficient querying and understand the tradeoffs between real-time and batch processing
• Lead projects from discovery to handover, make sound technical decisions, and mentor others

Nice to have

• Experience with content ingestion, metadata standards such as DDEX, B2B partner integrations, rights or compliance-sensitive data, lyrics or time-synced data, or GCP

We offer

• This role is based in London or Stockholm
• Flexibility to work where you work best, with some in-person meetings allowing for work-from-home flexibility