Backend Engineer- Release

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.

You will join the Release squad within our Client Platform Studio in the Platform mission. This team builds the tools, systems, and workflows that enable Spotify engineers to release software safely, quickly, and with confidence.

We focus on reliability, developer productivity, and standardization—powering the invisible machinery behind Spotify’s engineering experience. You’ll work on internal platforms that impact thousands of engineers and directly shape how software gets delivered at scale.

Build and maintain backend services and tooling that power Spotify’s release coordination workflows

Work on systems that manage release trains, rollout orchestration, and deployment state across services

Collaborate with Platform, Infrastructure, and SRE teams to ensure safe and predictable releases

Contribute to improving developer experience through scalable and reliable internal tooling

Participate in on-call rotations to support release tooling in production

Pair with experienced engineers to grow your technical skills and take on increasing ownership

Learn and contribute to Spotify’s release processes by working closely with Release Managers

You have 2+ years of experience building backend systems in a production environment

You are experienced with Java and comfortable working in backend service architectures

You understand distributed systems fundamentals and how to design reliable services

You have worked with or are interested in continuous integration and delivery practices

You are familiar with system design principles and building scalable backend systems

You collaborate effectively and value open feedback, learning, and shared ownership

You are comfortable working in agile teams and contributing to continuous improvement

You are interested in infrastructure, platform engineering, and developer tooling

You have experience with data pipelines or Scala (a plus, not required)

This role is based in London or Stockholm

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.

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. 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 chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.