Senior Software Engineer

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

The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe.

Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers.

Spotify is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Authorization team within Platform. Our team builds and operates the authorization and permissioning systems that enable creators and their teams to securely access and manage their presence across Spotify. What began by supporting Spotify for Artists has grown into foundational capabilities used across Spotify, including Music, Podcasts, and Audiobooks.

This is a backend-focused role working on systems that sit on a critical path for Spotify's creator ecosystem. You'll help us evolve these systems as they grow in scale and complexity, bringing strong backend engineering expertise while collaborating across product, frontend, and data when needed.