Engineering Manager - Content Platform

The role

This manager role sits within the Content Platform group, which handles content from licensed catalogue to user uploads across formats. The team's backend work determines how metadata and media reach Spotify's apps and outside partners at global scale. The manager will own both technical direction and the growth of the engineers doing this work.

What you would do

• Manage and expand a group of engineers building large distributed systems for content delivery
• Set architectural direction for backend services that distribute content
• Work with product, design, and platform colleagues to ship dependable, high-impact features
• Keep infrastructure highly available and fast while serving very high interaction volumes
• Build a team culture around accountability, teamwork, and ongoing improvement
• Coach engineers and guide their feedback and career progression
• Coordinate multi-system initiatives spanning several stakeholder groups
• Promote sound practices for reliability, monitoring, and system design

What they asked for

• Prior experience leading and developing engineers in a fast-moving, product-led setting
• Solid hands-on background in distributed systems, backend platforms, or large-scale infrastructure
• Ability to combine technical guidance with people management
• Skill at aligning cross-functional partners around shared objectives
• Care about dependable systems that affect large user populations
• Familiarity with high-throughput, low-latency systems or content/data delivery pipelines
• Clear communicator who encourages open sharing of ideas
• Motivated by mentoring others and building inclusive, high-performing teams