Senior Backend Engineer – Platform Developer Experience

Responsibilities

• Build and scale backend platforms that power AI agents and MCP servers across Spotify.
• Design reliable infrastructure for orchestration, lifecycle management, monitoring, and deployment of AI-powered systems.
• Define platform standards, tooling, and best practices that support secure, scalable, and high-quality agent development.
• Develop evaluation frameworks including automated testing pipelines, benchmarks, and quality metrics for AI systems.
• Improve observability through monitoring, logging, tracing, and performance analysis across distributed systems.
• Build APIs, SDKs, templates, and self-service tools that improve the developer experience for teams building with AI.
• Partner with engineers and cross-functional teams across Spotify to align on architecture, platform capabilities, and operational excellence.
• Contribute to technical direction and help evolve the foundations of Spotify’s internal AI ecosystem.

Qualifications

• You have experience building and operating large-scale backend or platform infrastructure in cloud-native environments.
• You are experienced with Kubernetes, distributed systems, and modern infrastructure tooling.
• You understand how AI agents, orchestration frameworks, and LLM-powered applications work in production environments.
• You know how to design testing strategies, evaluation frameworks, and quality measurements for complex systems.
• You have experience building APIs, developer platforms, integration layers, or connectivity protocols at scale.
• You are comfortable working with observability tooling and improving reliability, scalability, and system performance.
• You write clean, maintainable code in languages such as Python or TypeScript.
• You communicate clearly, collaborate effectively across teams, and enjoy solving problems with others.
• You care about creating intuitive developer experiences and enabling teams to move faster with confidence.