Head of Content Platform Engineering

Spotify; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify seeks a Director of Engineering to lead the Content Platform domain, shaping its technical direction and growing teams across the globe. You will own the technical strategy, align with product and business partners, and evolve complex catalog and content workflows to scale with trust and quality.

Based in London or Stockholm, the role offers hybrid work with some in-person collaboration, and a focus on building inclusive engineering culture while advancing automation and AI to improve

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering organizations through other leaders.
• Experience with data-intensive systems where accuracy and reliability are critical.
• Strong system design and architectural decision‑making in distributed systems.
• Experience evolving legacy systems and guiding long‑term platform transformations.
• Influence across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• Experience leading distributed teams across locations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop multiple engineering teams through engineering managers.
• Own and drive the technical strategy for a critical platform domain.
• Enable teams to build product experiences efficiently by improving catalog systems.
• Guide modernization of legacy systems into scalable, reliable architecture.
• Partner with product and cross‑functional leaders to align priorities.
• Improve system reliability and reduce operational friction in workflows.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

System design

Cross-functional collaboration

AI and automation

Communication

Mentoring

Strategic thinking

Job description

Spotify seeks a Director of Engineering to lead the Content Platform domain, shaping its technical direction and growing teams across the globe. You will own the technical strategy, align with product and business partners, and evolve complex catalog and content workflows to scale with trust and quality.

Based in London or Stockholm, the role offers hybrid work with some in-person collaboration, and a focus on building inclusive engineering culture while advancing automation and AI to improve