Staff Engineer - Content Platform at Spotify

Company: Spotify
Location: London
Employment type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-09-16

About the role

Content Platform is responsible for ingesting, processing, storing, and delivering every piece of content on Spotify — from music and podcasts to audiobooks. Within Content Platform, the Media domain owns the end-to-end media pipeline, from the moment content arrives through to seamless playback for listeners around the world. We're looking for a Staff Engineer to provide architectural leadership across this media platform. You’ll help shape and drive the technical direction from ingestion through transcoding, packaging, storage, delivery, and playback. This is a role for someone who thinks in systems, understands the trade-offs between codec choices and infrastructure costs, and can drive technical strategy across multiple teams at scale.

Apply on Spotify's official careers page: https://jobs.lever.co/spotify/be2d7d1e-939e-47f9-8db7-278caa101a60