Staff Engineer - Content Platform

What You'll Do

• Define and drive the long-term architectural direction for Spotify's media pipeline across Content Platform.


• Lead large-scale technical initiatives that span multiple squads and organizations, including projects such as media delivery, codec rollouts, and future playback capabilities.


• Partner closely with engineering managers, product managers, and senior engineers to align technical strategy with product priorities, reliability goals, and cost efficiency, acting as a key technical counterpart for media architecture.


• Guide architectural decisions across media ingestion, transcoding, packaging, storage, content delivery, and playback.


• Author and review RFCs, architecture decision records, and technical design documents that guide engineering teams and leadership.


• Mentor senior engineers across the organization, helping raise technical quality, architectural thinking, and engineering excellence.


• Bring a cost-aware engineering mindset by understanding how media architecture decisions impact compute, storage, CDN utilization, and long-term platform sustainability.

• You have deep expertise building large-scale media platforms spanning audio, video, encoding, transcoding, packaging, delivery, and playback technologies.


• You have successfully led architecture across multiple engineering teams and influenced technical direction beyond your immediate organization.


• You have significant experience designing and operating distributed systems at internet scale, including high-throughput media processing, large-scale storage, and globally distributed delivery infrastructure.


• You understand the architectural trade-offs between codecs, packaging formats, playback technologies, storage, networking, and infrastructure costs.


• You have a strong track record of leading multi-quarter technical initiatives from initial proposal through implementation and organization-wide adoption.


• You communicate technical ideas clearly through well-structured RFCs, design documents, and architectural decision records.


• You build trust through collaboration and technical credibility, bringing together teams with different priorities to deliver shared outcomes.


• You enjoy mentoring experienced engineers and helping organizations grow their technical capability.


• Experience working with cloud infrastructure providers, CDN vendors, and large-scale media delivery ecosystems is highly valued.

• 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.

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