Backend Engineer - Core Infrastructure

Requirements

• You have experience working with Kubernetes and understand networking fundamentals across multiple layers of the stack
• You are comfortable operating and debugging distributed systems in production environments
• You have strong coding skills in at least one programming language and are open to learning others such as Java or C++
• You are experienced with systems like load balancing, monitoring, or configuration management
• You care about software engineering practices such as testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
• You enjoy solving complex problems and are curious about how systems behave under the hood
• You are comfortable working in a distributed team and collaborating across locations
• You bring a thoughtful and methodical approach to solving infrastructure challenges

What You'll Be Doing

• Work closely with your squad to own and evolve Spotify’s perimeter infrastructure, handling traffic between clients and backend services at massive scale
• Design, build, and maintain systems that automate and simplify cloud networking, provisioning, and monitoring
• Contribute to distributed systems by writing, reviewing, and improving production-grade code
• Help enhance traffic protection capabilities, including DDoS mitigation and scraping prevention
• Partner with engineers across Spotify to design reliable, scalable services and improve platform usability
• Run disaster recovery exercises and prepare systems for real-world failure scenarios
• Troubleshoot complex system behaviors and continuously improve performance and resilience
• Take part in an on-call rotation and support the operational health of the services your team owns

Where You'll Be

• This role is based in London or Stockholm
• 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