Spotify

Senior Software Engineer - Enterprise AI

Spotify$164K — $234K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in software engineering or related field
  • Proficient in backend languages like Python or Go
  • Understanding of software architecture and integration
  • Familiar with identity and authentication technologies like OAuth or SAML
  • Experience working with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud
  • Ability to navigate ambiguous situations and make technical trade-offs
  • Background in enterprise SaaS or platform engineering is preferred

Responsibilities

  • Design and operate secure enterprise AI platform capabilities
  • Own and manage major infrastructure workstreams
  • Develop backend services and APIs for AI-powered experiences
  • Establish scalable AI governance approaches
  • Create workflows for effective information access
  • Ensure operational reliability and security of services
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and execute on AI needs

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Six-month paid parental leave
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Monthly meal allowance
  • 23 paid days off
  • Paid flexible holidays
  • Paid sick leave
Full Job Description
The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers.

Enterprise AI builds and operates the internal AI platform layer that supports Spotifiers across the company. We're helping evolve AI tooling into reliable infrastructure that teams can use in their day-to-day work. Our team builds the connective tissue between AI models and Spotify's internal systems, with a focus on secure access, governance, identity, integrations, and dependable AI infrastructure.

What You'll Do

  • Design, build, and operate secure enterprise AI platform capabilities that connect AI models, agents, tools, and Spotify's internal systems.
  • Own major workstreams across our enterprise AI infrastructure, including our Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateway and enterprise context capabilities, from technical design through launch and operation.
  • Build reliable backend services, APIs, and integrations that enable AI-powered experiences across Spotify's digital workplace.
  • Help develop scalable approaches to AI governance, including identity-aware access, permissions, auditing, policy enforcement, and managing risks associated with third-party AI-enabled tools.
  • Design, build, test, and evaluate agentic systems and workflows that help Spotifiers access information and accomplish tasks effectively.
  • Take operational ownership of the services and components you build, balancing speed, reliability, security, and long-term maintainability.
  • Partner with engineers and stakeholders across Spotify to identify opportunities, make thoughtful technical tradeoffs, and turn emerging AI needs into scalable platform capabilities.
  • Contribute to engineering practices, knowledge sharing, and AI fluency as we learn how to operate enterprise AI infrastructure at Spotify scale.


Who You Are

  • You have strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building, testing, debugging, and operating reliable backend systems.
  • You are experienced with backend languages such as Python, Go, or similar and are comfortable designing APIs and integrations across complex systems.
  • You understand software architecture and how services, APIs, enterprise tools, and user-facing experiences fit together.
  • You have experience with identity and authentication concepts and technologies such as OAuth, SAML, or SCIM.
  • You have experience working with cloud infrastructure; familiarity with Google Cloud Platform is valuable.
  • You are comfortable navigating ambiguity, creating clarity, and independently making thoughtful technical tradeoffs.
  • You care about operational ownership and building dependable infrastructure that other teams and employees can rely on.
  • You enjoy experimentation, iteration, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning in a collaborative engineering environment.
  • Experience with enterprise SaaS or platform engineering, or with LLM integration patterns such as tool use, function calling, agentic workflows, or systems-level prompt engineering, will help you make an impact in this role.


Where You'll Be

  • This role is based in New York.
  • 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.


The United States base range for this position is $164,448-$234,926 USD, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six-month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.

About Spotify

Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media services provider, launched in October 2008. The platform is owned by Spotify AB, a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange since April 2018. Spotify's primary business is providing an audio streaming platform, with the company claiming that it had 345 million active monthly users and 155 million paying subscribers as of December 2020. Unlike physical or download sales, which pay artists a fixed price per song or album sold, Spotify pays royalties based on the number of artist streams as a proportion of total songs streamed on the service. Spotify distributes approximately 70% of its total revenue to rights holders, who then pay artists based on their individual agreements. Spotify has faced criticism from artists and producers including Taylor Swift and Thom Yorke, who have argued that it does not fairly compensate musicians. Spotify has also faced criticism from artists and producers including Taylor Swift and Thom Yorke, who have argued that it does not fairly compensate musicians.
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2006

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