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Senior Backend Engineer – Surfaces
Location
New York
Posted
13 days ago
Salary
$165K - $235K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer – Surfaces
Spotify
• Own and evolve the core experimentation service, building agentic workflows that automate experiment setup, configuration, and validation across multiple backend systems • Design and maintain API-first orchestration layers that coordinate across experimentation and content delivery systems • Build and integrate LLM-driven workflows into robust, production-ready infrastructure, including planner, generator, and validator architectural patterns • Define and uphold SLOs and SLAs for experimentation infrastructure, contributing to a strong culture of reliability and operational excellence • Partner closely with content, feature, and platform teams to scale automated experimentation patterns across a growing range of surfaces and configurations • Identify, diagnose, and resolve bottlenecks in experiment orchestration to ensure fast and reliable workflows • Collaborate across squads to continuously improve how experimentation and evaluation are delivered across Spotify Surfaces • Contribute to architectural decisions that improve system scalability, observability, and maintainability
Job Requirements
- You have experience building and operating large-scale backend systems serving high-traffic user experiences
- You’re comfortable using AI-assisted tools to develop high quality software.
- You are experienced with distributed systems, APIs, and service-oriented architecture
- You know how to design systems with performance, scalability, and reliability in mind
- You are a product-minded engineer who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure, AI, and experimentation
- Experience translating conceptual architectures into scalable, production-ready code
- Comfortable working across multiple teams and collaborating with cross-functional partners
- You care about creating maintainable systems that enable fast iteration and experimentation
- Motivated by turning fragmented, manual processes into elegant, automated workflows
- Experience defining and working with SLOs, SLAs, and observability tooling
- Experience with LLMs, agent frameworks, or A/B testing infrastructure is a bonus
Benefits
- health insurance
- six month paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- monthly meal allowance
- 23 paid days off
- 13 paid flexible holidays
- paid sick leave
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