Backend Engineer - Mimir, Personalization
Core
Build foundational backend infrastructure powering recommendations across Spotify, enabling efficient retrieval, ranking, and filtering of personalized content for millions of listeners.
Role type
Senior IC backend engineer (large-scale distributed systems)
Builds
Scalable backend services for candidate generation, content/user representations, and centralized filtering
Domain
Music streaming / Recommendation systems
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
distributed systems, APIs, data-intensive applications, large-scale service architectures, system reliability, latency optimization, scalability design
Preferred skills
machine learning experience, platform-level problem solving
Technologies
(none explicitly listed)
Responsibilities
Build and evolve backend systems supporting personalization at Spotify scale; develop infrastructure for efficient content retrieval and ranking; design reliable, scalable services for high-volume workloads; improve system reliability, observability, and operational performance; participate in technical design and architectural decisions
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC