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About the Role
We are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the Content Platform domain, shaping its technical direction, developing teams, and evolving the systems that underpin Spotify’s global content platform. This role is responsible for the systems that define, structure, and govern content across the platform, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and availability.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop multiple engineering teams through engineering managers, supporting their growth and impact.
- Own and drive the technical strategy for a critical platform domain, aligning it with broader company and platform goals.
- Enable teams across Spotify to build product experiences efficiently by improving the underlying catalog systems.
- Guide the evolution and modernization of complex legacy systems into scalable, reliable architecture.
- Partner closely with product and cross-functional leaders to align priorities and drive execution.
- Improve system reliability and reduce operational friction in workflows that directly impact content availability.
- Identify and apply opportunities for automation and AI to improve data quality and engineering productivity.
- Build an inclusive engineering culture where teams continuously improve how they work and deliver.
- Develop and execute a long-term roadmap that balances immediate priorities with strategic investments.
Requirements
- Experience leading engineering organizations through other leaders and scaling teams effectively.
- Experience working on complex, data-intensive systems where accuracy, consistency, and reliability at scale are critical.
- Strong system design and architectural decision-making experience in distributed systems.
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and making thoughtful trade-offs in high-impact environments.
- Experience evolving legacy systems and guiding long-term platform transformations.
- Ability to influence effectively across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
- Experience leading distributed teams and creating alignment across locations.
- Clear communication skills and ability to explain complex technical topics to a range of audiences.
- Curiosity about how AI and automation can improve systems and workflows and apply that thinking pragmatically.
- Commitment to building inclusive, collaborative environments where teams can grow and do their best work.
Skills
- System design
- Architectural decision-making
- Distributed systems
- Automation
- AI
Location
- Stockholm
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Director
Salary/Compensations
- $281,196 - $401,709 plus equity
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Six month paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Monthly meal allowance
- 23 paid days off
- 13 paid flexible holidays
- Paid sick leave
About the Company
- We design Spotify’s consumer experience—end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration.
- Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world.
- We bring deep insight into human behavior, design, and technology to craft experiences that feel intuitive, expressive, and unmistakably Spotify.