Spotify is hiring a Backend Engineer to join the AI Fleet Management team within Platform Developer Experience. You will help build the next generation of fleet management tooling that ships externally through Portal, Spotify's developer platform. Your work will enable safe, automated, fleet-wide changes across thousands of repositories and environments.
What You'll Do
- Build and evolve backend services that power AI Fleet Management across Spotify and Portal’s external customers
- Design scalable distributed systems that support safe, observable, and repeatable fleet-wide changes
- Integrate AI-native capabilities into backend workflows using modern LLM tooling and agent-based automation
- Develop services across a polyglot backend stack including Java, Python, and Node.js
- Take ownership of well-scoped services end-to-end, including participating in operational support and on-call rotation
- Collaborate with product, design, and go-to-market partners to shape practical, customer-facing platform capabilities
- Contribute to strong engineering fundamentals including automated testing, observability, reliability, and continuous delivery
- Help evolve internal and external APIs, SDKs, and platform primitives used daily by other engineers
What We're Looking For
- 3+ years of experience building backend services and distributed systems
- Strong experience in Java and Python and are comfortable working in a polyglot environment that includes Node.js
- Experience designing and operating production systems with reliability and scalability in mind
- Comfortable taking ownership of services from implementation through production support
- Think beyond just services — you care about developer experience and how APIs, tooling, and workflows are consumed
- Practice continuous delivery, automated testing, and clean engineering habits
- Communicate clearly and collaborate effectively across engineering and cross-functional teams
Technical Stack
- Java
- Python
- Node.js
Team & Environment
You will join the AI Fleet Management team within Platform Developer Experience.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $132,949–$189,927 USD + equity
- Health insurance
- Six-month paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Monthly meal allowance
- 23 paid days off
- Paid flexible holidays
- Paid sick leave
Work Mode
This is a hybrid role based in New York, NY.
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace.
