The Personalization team makes deciding what to play next easier and more enjoyable for every listener. From Blend to Discover Weekly, we’re behind some of Spotify’s most-loved features. We built them by understanding the world of music and podcasts better than anyone else. Join us and you’ll keep millions of users listening by making great recommendations to each and every one of them.
You’ll join the Surfaces squad within Spotify’s Personalization mission, focused on the Now Playing View (NPV) one of the most visible and high-impact surfaces in the Spotify experience. This is a newly formed team working at the intersection of backend engineering and machine learning, building systems that power real-time recommendations and content discovery for hundreds of millions of listeners.
What You'll Do
- Own the backend systems that rank and serve personalized content to hundreds of millions of Spotify users on the Now Playing View, one of Spotify's most visible surfaces.
- Work in an AI-native development workflow. To implement backend changes across services, review their output, and ensure architectural coherence across the system.
- Integrate with ML serving infrastructure and collaborate with ML engineers to bring models from training to production within tight latency constraints.
- Make product-informed backend decisions to understand why a feature matters to users, not just how to implement it. Connecting system design choices to scroll engagement, discovery, and user experience.
- Design the patterns, tests, and guardrails that keep agent-generated code consistent, safe, and production-ready across services.
- Run and analyze A/B experiments from instrumenting new features to interpreting rollout metrics. Shipping what the data says works.
- Own production reliability for your services including monitoring, alerting, on-call, and incident response. Collaborate as part of a cross functional team including machine learning engineers, data scientists, research scientists, and product managers, to turn ideas into production systems.
Who You Are
Where You'll Be
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.