Senior Backend Engineer — Authorization Platform

Spotify; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Authorization team in Platform. You will build and operate the authorization and permissioning systems that power creator access across Spotify’s ecosystem, handling creators, teams, and their roles.

This backend-focused role sits on a critical path for the creator ecosystem and will scale with user growth, collaborating with product, frontend, and data teams to evolve secure, reliable access controls.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience for scalable systems.
• Experience with authorization and permissioning.
• Ability to collaborate across product, frontend, and data teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate authorization and permissioning systems.
• Scale and evolve backend services on critical paths.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams.

Skills

Backend engineering

Authorization systems

Distributed systems

API design

Job description

Spotify is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Authorization team in Platform. You will build and operate the authorization and permissioning systems that power creator access across Spotify’s ecosystem, handling creators, teams, and their roles.

This backend-focused role sits on a critical path for the creator ecosystem and will scale with user growth, collaborating with product, frontend, and data teams to evolve secure, reliable access controls.