Spotify · 6 hours ago
Site Reliability Engineer - Backstage
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
$133K/yr - $190K/yrSpotify is a leading audio streaming subscription service, and they are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Backstage team. The role involves building and operating cloud infrastructure for their developer platform, focusing on reliability, security, and scalability while collaborating with engineers to innovate in AI-native workflows.
Cloud ComputingMusicDigital MediaAudioMusic StreamingPodcast
Responsibilities
Orchestrate the Fleet: Maintain and improve Portal’s SaaS infrastructure for reliability, security, and scalability. This covers the runtime environments supporting the platform and workflows powered by large language models
Modern Infra-as-Code: Collaborate with senior engineers to build infrastructure on GCP and AWS using Terraform and emerging infrastructure-from-code patterns where agents assist in defining the stack
Support Fullstack Systems: Operate in a modern web stack environment (TypeScript, React, Python). While this isn’t a frontend-heavy role, comfort with debugging fullstack systems and web infrastructure is key
Reliability Engineering: Participate in on-call rotations to ensure systems meet reliability and availability goals, employing AI assistants to accelerate root cause analysis and incident resolution
Collaborate & Innovate: Participate in the planning and delivery of technical projects, defining how infrastructure evolves to support the next wave of generative AI features
Qualification
Required
Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP or AWS)
Experience with IaC tools like Terraform
Interest in LLMs, RAG, or agents in an operational context
Understanding of distributed systems principles
Experience operating distributed systems reliably at scale
Experience with at least one modern programming language (e.g., TypeScript, Java, Go, Python)
Comfort navigating codebases where AI-generated PRs are the norm
Prioritization of code quality and reliability
Looking for ways to build systems that test themselves and improve through automated feedback loops
Eager to evolve as an engineer in a rapidly changing landscape
Preferred
Familiarity with open-source projects or building 'coding assistant' bots
Benefits
Health insurance
Six month paid parental leave
401(k) retirement plan
Monthly meal allowance
23 paid days off
13 paid flexible holidays
Paid sick leave
Company
Spotify
Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that provides restricted digital content from a range of record labels and artists.
Founded in 2006
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.09BKey Investors
ValueAct CapitalManhattan Venture Partners (MVP)Goldman Sachs Investment Partners
2023-02-10Post Ipo Equity
2021-02-25Post Ipo Debt
2018-04-03IPO
Leadership Team
Alex Norstrom
Co-CEO
Daniel Ek
Chairman & CEO
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