Staff Engineer - Content Platform
Core
Architectural leadership for Spotify's end-to-end media pipeline, covering ingestion, transcoding, packaging, storage, delivery, and playback for music, podcasts, and audiobooks.
Role type
Staff Engineer (Media Platform Architecture)
Builds
Global media delivery infrastructure and playback capabilities for Spotify's content ecosystem
Domain
Streaming media, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Large-scale media platform architecture, distributed systems design, codec selection and trade-offs, cloud infrastructure strategy, RFC/ADR authoring, technical mentorship, cost-aware engineering
Preferred skills
Experience with CDN vendors, cloud infrastructure providers, multi-quarter technical initiative leadership
Technologies
Media encoding/transcoding frameworks, storage systems, CDN networks, cloud platforms
Responsibilities
Define long-term architectural direction for the media pipeline, lead cross-organization technical initiatives, guide architectural decisions across the media stack, author and review RFCs and design documents, mentor senior engineers, optimize platform sustainability and cost efficiency
Seniority
Staff, strategic architecture & cross-team leadership
