• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable Python applications using object-oriented principles • Develop and implement Agentic AI systems (autonomous or semi-autonomous workflows) on GCP • Work extensively with Vertex AI • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define system architecture and AI strategies • Optimize performance, scalability, and reliability of AI services and backend systems • Integrate APIs, third-party services, and cloud-native tools into applications • Ensure code quality through testing, code reviews, and best practices

• Design, build, and ship backend services that power LLM-based music fulfilment experiences, giving users more adaptive control over their listening • Build and maintain the APIs and distributed systems behind prompted playlist experiences, session generation, and agentic music products • Collaborate with cross-functional partners across user research, design, data science, product, and ML engineering to build new product features that connect artists and fans in personalized and meaningful ways • Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous, cross-functional agile team • Prototype new approaches and productionize solutions at scale for hundreds of millions of active users • Contribute to the Spotify-wide backend developer community, affecting and driving architecture across the company • Promote best practices in backend system design, testing, and deployment across the organization

• With the support of your team, you will work on tasks that contribute to the team's projects and goals. • You will work collaboratively and proactively with your team and stakeholders, bringing them along for your work and helping to create visibility and dialog regarding the risks and trade-offs related to your work. • You will strike the right balance of speed and quality in your work, ensuring that we hit our business goals while protecting our systems from downtime. • You will contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities. • On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement

• Implement automated health checks for AWS resources and applications. • Build performance monitoring dashboards and scripts to track system health and SLAs. • Develop and configure alerting mechanisms using AWS services such as CloudWatch, SNS, EventBridge. • Ensure timely notifications to relevant teams through automated workflows. • Build Python‑based automations to validate and enforce configuration consistency across multiple AWS accounts. • Develop scripts to detect anomalies, misconfigurations, and compliance gaps. • Create automated service request workflows to engage engineering, DevOps, and support teams. • Integrate alerting workflows with ticketing or communication systems (e.g., Slack, email, Jira).