- Company: Spotify
- Location: London or Stockholm
- Job type: Permanent
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About the role
Spotify’s Policy & Safety team is part of the Content Platform within the Experience Mission. This team builds the infrastructure for content moderation and regulatory compliance, ensuring safety at scale for billions of users. You will work at the intersection of backend engineering, machine learning, and compliance, partnering with Licensing, Trust & Safety, Legal, and Public Affairs. This is a permanent role based in London or Stockholm, with flexibility to work from home alongside some in-person meetings.
Responsibilities
- Define the technical direction for policy enforcement infrastructure and architect shared capabilities for multiple product teams.
- Design multi-signal orchestration systems that allow for configurable and auditable policy enforcement across various content types.
- Build the data foundation to ensure enforcement decisions are durable and reusable.
- Own critical API and contract decisions, including schema design, versioning, and evolution strategies.
- Establish integration standards for teams onboarding onto the shared infrastructure and manage migrations.
- Influence architecture across detection, signal processing, and enforcement workflows to maintain coherence as the platform scales.
- Mentor engineers and set standards for API design, data modeling, and compliance reasoning.
Requirements
- Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, APIs, and event-driven pipelines in production.
- Strong proficiency in backend languages such as Java, Kotlin, or Go, with ownership of data models and service contracts.
- Experience with stream processing and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub) and understanding of batch vs. real-time tradeoffs.
- Background in designing systems where schema and contract stability are critical.
- Experience with workflow orchestration and distributed coordination frameworks (e.g., Temporal, Airflow) or choreography-based systems.
- Knowledge of relational and non-relational storage systems, with an ability to model data for auditability and efficient querying.
- Familiarity with platform engineering patterns, including multi-tenant APIs and configurable rule engines.
- Understanding of observability, distributed tracing, and operational excellence tools.
- Experience in regulated or compliance-adjacent environments, recognizing the legal and audit consequences of infrastructure choices.
- Ability to navigate polyglot environments and existing systems thoughtfully.
Pay and benefits
The job advertisement does not specify a salary range. Spotify offers the flexibility to work where you work best, with some in-person meetings required. The company is an equal opportunity employer and supports reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process.
How to apply
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