Senior Staff Engineer - Platform & Partner Experience

Requirements

• You have deep experience designing, building and operating distributed systems that serve users at scale
• You have a strong track record of technical leadership — influencing and shaping architecture decisions across teams, and driving organizational change in how software gets built
• You thrive in complex, ambiguous problem spaces and can identify where technical investment will create the greatest leverage across teams and systems
• You care deeply about reliable, high-quality user experiences powered by data and personalization
• You actively explore how AI reshapes how we build, not just what we build, and can turn emerging capabilities into practical improvements in how teams work
• You bring a thoughtful, collaborative, inclusive mindset and actively contribute to a positive team culture

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and development of systems that enable and enhance partner and platform experiences across devices and integrations
• Drive complex technical initiatives that span multiple studios or a full mission — particularly where coordination cost, architectural sprawl, or competing local optimizations are part of the problem
• Create leverage by unifying fragmented approaches, retiring duplicative systems, and establishing the standards and platforms that enable multiple studios move faster without reinventing foundations — judging where consolidation creates leverage and where local autonomy is the better choice
• Define and influence technical strategy across organizational boundaries and bring other senior engineers along in executing it
• Collaborate with engineering, product and design leaders across the Experience Mission and beyond to identify shared opportunities, align technical direction and reduce duplication
• Shape how AI transforms the software development lifecycle and pioneer AI-native workflows and capabilities that bridge engineering, product, and design

Where You Will Be

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best. For this role, you can be based anywhere in EMEA where Spotify has a work location (excluding France due to on-call restrictions).
• The team collaborates within Central European and GMT time zones.