Staff Engineer, Content Intelligence Infra & ML Platforms

Spotify; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify is seeking a Staff Engineer to build and scale foundational infrastructure for content understanding. This role is integral to the Content Intelligence Product Area, focusing on backend systems, ML infrastructure, and AI-enabled platform capabilities.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in large-scale systems, programming expertise in Java, Python, or Scala, and a strong understanding of processing high-volume multimedia workloads.

The position is flexible, allowing work from either London or Stockholm.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building and scaling large-scale backend and infrastructure systems.
• Technical judgment balancing scalability, reliability, cost, and product needs.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, or Scala.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of data and ML infrastructure systems.
• Build scalable infrastructure for multimodal content processing.
• Drive architectural decisions for distributed systems and platform reliability.

Skills

Backend systems development

Machine learning infrastructure

Java

Python

Scala

Distributed systems

High-volume multimedia processing

AI and LLM experience

Job description

Spotify is seeking a Staff Engineer to build and scale foundational infrastructure for content understanding. This role is integral to the Content Intelligence Product Area, focusing on backend systems, ML infrastructure, and AI-enabled platform capabilities.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in large-scale systems, programming expertise in Java, Python, or Scala, and a strong understanding of processing high-volume multimedia workloads.

The position is flexible, allowing work from either London or Stockholm.