Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Developer Experience

Requirements

• Experience building and operating large-scale backend or platform infrastructure in cloud-native environments
• Experienced with Kubernetes, distributed systems, and modern infrastructure tooling
• Understanding of how AI agents, orchestration frameworks, and LLM-powered applications work in production environments
• Knowledge in designing testing strategies, evaluation frameworks, and quality measurements for complex systems
• Experience building APIs, developer platforms, integration layers, or connectivity protocols at scale
• Comfortable working with observability tooling and improving reliability, scalability, and system performance
• Proficiency in writing clean, maintainable code in languages such as Python or TypeScript
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, problem-solving abilities
• Passion for creating intuitive developer experiences and enabling teams to move faster with confidence

What You'll be Doing

• 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

Nice to Haves

• No additional nice-to-have requirements specified

Perks and Benefits

• This role is based in London or Stockholm
• Offering flexibility to work where you work best with a balance between in-person meetings and work from home