Senior Software Engineer - Platform Infrastructure

The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers.

What if the systems you built changed how millions of developers work, not just at Spotify, but across the industry? The Platform Developer Experience (PDX) studio builds the infrastructure and internal products that power how Spotify engineers ship software. Within PDX and Backstage Product Area, the Platform Infrastructure team is building the next generation of cloud and compute foundations that power our internal developer platform and the AI agents running on top of it, and help bring those capabilities to market through Portal, Spotify's external developer platform built on Backstage.

You'll join the Platform Infrastructure team within the Backstage Product Area. The team owns the cloud foundations, developer tooling and security posture that the rest of Platform, and ultimately all of Spotify R&D, depends on. You’ll collaborate closely with experienced engineers (both human and AI-assisted) while operating at real-world scale, with deep observability, strong safety boundaries, and the unique reliability challenges of agentic production systems.

Design, build, and operate multi-cloud foundations across GCP and AWS

Own platform components end-to-end with a strong bar for reliability and security

Improve developer tooling and platform self-service capabilities

Build secure-by-default infrastructure patterns

Drive operational excellence through incident management and automation

Collaborate across Platform and R&D to improve developer productivity

Contribute to Backstage and Portal

Mentor engineers and raise engineering quality

You have 5+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience

You have deep experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS), Terraform, and Kubernetes

You are proficient in a modern programming language

You have strong experience with CI/CD and developer platforms

You think in distributed systems and understand trade-offs

You are familiar with AI/LLM systems and their application to infrastructure

You take ownership of outcomes and drive impact

You communicate clearly and navigate complex trade-offs

You foster inclusive, collaborative environments

• This role is based in New York, NY
• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.