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Staff Engineer - Content Platform

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About the Role

At Spotify, a Most Loved Workplace® certified employer in the Entertainment space, Unlock human creativity and connect billions to the world's greatest music.

Content Platform is responsible for ingesting, processing, storing, and delivering every piece of content on Spotify — from music and podcasts to audiobooks. Within Content Platform, the Media domain owns the end-to-end media pipeline, from the moment content arrives through to seamless playback for listeners around the world. We're looking for a Staff Engineer to provide architectural leadership across this media platform. You’ll help shape and drive the technical direction from ingestion through transcoding, packaging, storage, delivery, and playback. This is a role for someone who thinks in systems, understands the trade-offs between codec choices and infrastructure costs, and can drive technical strategy across multiple teams at scale.

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Why This Is a Most Loved Workplace® Certified Job

What It's Like to Work Here

music Creative Courage

users Band Mentality Collaboration

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Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creators the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Today, Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming service that has over 10 million creators with almost half a billion fans across 184 countries and markets.

Please review the specific job listing or contact Spotify's recruiting team for details on remote or hybrid work options for this role.

Salary information may vary by role and location. Please check the specific job listing or discuss compensation during the interview process.

Spotify is an established organization in its industry. The company is a certified Most Loved Workplace®, highlighting a strong, positive culture and committed workforce.

Key benefit categories include: Health & Wellness, Family & Time Off, Financial & Equity, Work Experience. You can view more details on their CertCheck profile.

The day-to-day environment is guided by core values such as Creative Courage and Band Mentality Collaboration and Sincere Connection.

The company has committed to inclusive practices including: Foster a Culture of Trust and Transparency and Empower Creative Innovation and Bold Risk-Taking.

They have earned Most Loved Workplace® certifications including: Most Loved Workplace Most Loved Workplaces® 2025 and Most Loved Workplace Most Loved Workplaces® 2021.

Spotify currently has 79 open positions. They are hiring across departments like Experience, Music Business, Music Marketing. You can view all current openings at certcheck.mostlovedworkplace.com/companies/spotify/jobs.

The interview process typically involves an initial recruiter screen followed by team interviews. Please contact Spotify's recruiting team for specific details on this role's process.