Staff Backend Engineer - Content Platform
Core
Design and evolve multi-signal orchestration systems for configurable, auditable policy enforcement at scale across content types and product surfaces.
Role type
Staff Backend Engineer (Policy & Safety Platform)
Builds
Shared enforcement infrastructure, rule engines, and compliance data platforms for Spotify's content moderation.
Domain
Streaming media, content safety, regulatory compliance
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Large-scale distributed systems, API design, event-driven pipelines, rule engines, stream processing, workflow orchestration, polyglot environments, observability, regulated environment experience
Preferred skills
Java, Kotlin, Go, Kafka, Temporal, Airflow, relational and non-relational storage
Technologies
Java, Kotlin, Go, Kafka, Pub/Sub, Temporal, Airflow
Responsibilities
Define technical direction for policy enforcement infrastructure, architect shared enforcement capabilities, design multi-signal orchestration systems, build data foundation for enforcement decisions, own API and contract decisions, establish integration standards, influence architecture across detection and enforcement workflows, mentor engineers on API design and data modeling
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship
