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Staff Engineer - Content Platform

Spotify· Engineering – Experience
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Hybrid (London), Hybrid (Stockholm)full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Staff Engineer role providing architectural leadership across Spotify's Content Platform media domain, shaping technical direction for the end-to-end media pipeline (ingestion to playback) at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the long-term architectural direction for Spotify's media pipeline across Content Platform.
  • Lead large-scale technical initiatives that span multiple squads and organizations, including projects such as media delivery, codec rollouts, and future playback capabilities.
  • Partner closely with engineering managers, product managers, and senior engineers to align technical strategy with product priorities, reliability goals, and cost efficiency, acting as a key technical counterpart for media architecture.
  • Guide architectural decisions across media ingestion, transcoding, packaging, storage, content delivery, and playback.
  • Author and review RFCs, architecture decision records, and technical design documents that guide engineering teams and leadership.
  • Mentor senior engineers across the organization, helping raise technical quality, architectural thinking, and engineering excellence.
  • Bring a cost-aware engineering mindset by understanding how media architecture decisions impact compute, storage, CDN utilization, and long-term platform sustainability.

Qualifications

  • Deep expertise building large-scale media platforms spanning audio, video, encoding, transcoding, packaging, delivery, and playback technologies.
  • Experience leading architecture across multiple engineering teams and influencing technical direction beyond your immediate organization.
  • Significant experience designing and operating distributed systems at internet scale, including high-throughput media processing, large-scale storage, and globally distributed delivery infrastructure.
  • Understanding of architectural trade-offs between codecs, packaging formats, playback technologies, storage, networking, and infrastructure costs.
  • Strong track record of leading multi-quarter technical initiatives from initial proposal through implementation and organization-wide adoption.
  • Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly through RFCs, design documents, and architectural decision records.
  • Ability to build trust through collaboration and technical credibility, bringing together teams with different priorities to deliver shared outcomes.
  • Experience mentoring experienced engineers and helping organizations grow technical capability.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure providers, CDN vendors, and large-scale media delivery ecosystems is highly valued.

Skills

Required:Media pipeline architectureDistributed systemsRFCs and architectural documents

Benefits

  • We offer flexibility to work where you work best, with some in-person meetings.
  • Equal opportunity employer with inclusive recruitment practices and accommodations during the interview process.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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