Staff Engineer - Content Platform

• You have deep expertise building large-scale media platforms spanning audio, video, encoding, transcoding, packaging, delivery, and playback technologies.
• You have successfully led architecture across multiple engineering teams and influenced technical direction beyond your immediate organization.
• You have significant experience designing and operating distributed systems at internet scale, including high-throughput media processing, large-scale storage, and globally distributed delivery infrastructure.
• You understand the architectural trade-offs between codecs, packaging formats, playback technologies, storage, networking, and infrastructure costs.
• You have a strong track record of leading multi-quarter technical initiatives from initial proposal through implementation and organization-wide adoption.
• You communicate technical ideas clearly through well-structured RFCs, design documents, and architectural decision records.
• You build trust through collaboration and technical credibility, bringing together teams with different priorities to deliver shared outcomes.
• You enjoy mentoring experienced engineers and helping organizations grow their technical capability.
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure providers, CDN vendors, and large-scale media delivery ecosystems is highly valued.

Where You'll Be

• This role is based in London or Stockholm
• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.

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. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.