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Senior Backend Engineer - Music

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Overview

The Music Mission team owns Spotify’s end to end proposition for music creators and the experiences they create for fans. The team is dedicated to building tools and services to enable creation, promotion, expression, and monetization at scale.

Technical Tools

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The Rights Systems team builds and operates Spotify Rights Center (SRC) — Spotify's rights management platform that enables Spotify and its partners to identify, manage, and enforce music licensing rights across all the content Spotify has to offer. Comparable in scope to YouTube's Content ID, SRC is purpose-built for Spotify’s ecosystem and underpins Spotify’s strategy for video and new content types.

Over the past year, the team shipped SRC from inception to a fully operational production platform, growing from one squad to three squads (~30 people). The team is continuing to scale as an area of strategic investment over the next 2–5 years.

Design, build, and operate backend services and data pipelines that power Spotify Rights Center

Partner closely with product, insights, design, and engineering peers to understand the needs of external rightsholders and internal partners

Deliver scalable, testable, maintainable backend systems with strong operational ownership

Help evolve the platform architecture as it expands to more licensors, territories, and content types, including shifts from batch processing toward event-driven patterns

Support timely delivery of technical solutions aligned to business needs

Contribute to modern engineering practices, including agile ways of working and healthy engineering standards

Integrate with Spotify’s broader content and moderation ecosystem as needed

Contribute to a healthy, collaborative team culture aligned to how we work together

Collaborate on product ideation with specialists, researchers, product managers, and subject-matter experts

Grow your skills through hands-on work, feedback, and learning opportunities (hack days, reading groups, internal courses)

You have strong experience designing and building distributed, high-volume services in Java or similar languages

You are comfortable with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and event-driven architectures (Pub/Sub)

You have experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases and understand data modeling trade-offs

You are accustomed to supporting production systems and apply learnings from prior incidents when building new features

You own solutions end-to-end, from scoping through deployment and production monitoring

You ensure quality through modern testing, debugging, and automation techniques

You have a solid understanding of object-oriented and functional programming paradigms

You proactively identify tech debt and work with your team to get it prioritized

You care about software architecture across the full stack and the APIs that connect systems together

You’re excited to learn new problem spaces and domains, and you prioritize team success

Experience with Bazel, GCP services (Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, BigQuery), and data pipeline tools (Scio, Scala, Flyte) is a plus

Familiarity with rights management, content moderation, or 0-to-1 product work is a plus

We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North Americas region as long as we have a work location.

This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job

New York, United States

Remote within one country

Who can apply

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Posted: March 16, 2026
First seen: May 5, 2026
Last seen: May 9, 2026

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Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it.

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Founded

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