Backend Engineer - Platform Developer Experience

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.

What if the systems you built changed how millions of developers work — not just at Spotify, but across the industry? You’ll join the AI Fleet Management team within Platform Developer Experience. We’re building the next generation of fleet management — evolving proven internal capabilities into a scalable experience that ships externally through Portal, Spotify’s developer platform built on Backstage.

Our platform enables engineering teams to execute safe, automated, fleet-wide changes across thousands of repositories and environments. From mature platform engineering organizations to teams investing in developer experience for the first time, we’re delivering tooling that improves reliability, automation, and developer satisfaction at scale.

If you’re excited about building systems that directly improve how developers ship and maintain software, this is your opportunity to have meaningful impact while growing your skills.

What You'll Do

Build and evolve backend services that power AI Fleet Management across Spotify and Portal’s external customers Design scalable distributed systems that support safe, observable, and repeatable fleet-wide changes Integrate AI-native capabilities into backend workflows using modern LLM tooling and agent-based automation Develop services across a polyglot backend stack including Java, Python, and Node.js Take ownership of well-scoped services end-to-end, including participating in operational support and on-call rotation Collaborate with product, design, and go-to-market partners to shape practical, customer-facing platform capabilities Contribute to strong engineering fundamentals including automated testing, observability, reliability, and continuous delivery Help evolve internal and external APIs, SDKs, and platform primitives used daily by other engineers

Who You Are

You have 3+ years of experience building backend services and distributed systems You have strong experience in Java and Python and are comfortable working in a polyglot environment that includes Node.js You have experience deg and operating production systems with reliability and scalability in mind You are comfortable taking ownership of services from implementation through production support You think beyond just services — you care about developer experience and how APIs, tooling, and workflows are consumed You practice continuous delivery, automated testing, and clean engineering habits You communicate clearly and collaborate effectively across engineering and cross-functional teams

Where You'll Be

This role is based in New York, NY 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.