New York, NY Hybrid Full-time USD 164,448 – 234,926 / year

Spotify is hiring a Senior Engineer - User Platform

About the Role

This position involves designing and maintaining core services that power user profiles, identity management, and secure access across the platform, ensuring reliability and scalability for millions of users.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable backend systems for user identity and access management
  • Collaborate with product teams to deliver secure and seamless user experiences
  • Improve reliability and performance of critical user platform services
  • Develop APIs and infrastructure used across multiple product domains
  • Work closely with security teams to enforce authentication and authorization standards
  • Diagnose and resolve complex production issues in distributed systems
  • Contribute to long-term technical strategy for user data consistency and availability
  • Optimize systems for low latency and high throughput
  • Support incident response and on-call rotations for critical services
  • Drive adoption of best practices in code quality and system observability
  • Participate in architectural reviews and cross-team technical alignment
  • Mentor engineers and promote a culture of technical excellence
  • Evaluate and integrate new technologies to improve system capabilities
  • Ensure compliance with privacy regulations and data protection standards
  • Monitor system health and proactively address potential risks
  • Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing across engineering teams

Nice to Have

  • Experience with identity providers and single sign-on systems
  • Background in building user-facing platform services
  • Familiarity with OAuth, OpenID Connect, and SAML
  • Knowledge of data privacy frameworks and regulations
  • Experience scaling systems to support tens of millions of users
  • Contributions to open-source projects related to identity or security
  • Prior work in high-growth consumer technology companies

Compensation

Competitive salary, equity, and benefits package commensurate with experience

Work Arrangement

Hybrid work model with flexibility based on team and location

Team

Part of the Core Platform organization, focused on foundational user services

Our Values

  • We are committed to building inclusive teams that foster belonging
  • We value collaboration, innovation, and user-centric problem solving
  • We encourage continuous learning and professional growth

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance
  • Retirement savings plans
  • Generous parental leave
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Learning and development stipend

Available for qualified candidates where permitted by local regulations

About company
Spotify
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.
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Department Engineering – Platform
Category other
Posted 5 months ago