Engineering Manager - Core Infrastructure

Spotify Spotify · Consumer · Stockholm, Sweden +1 · Platform

Engineering Manager for Core Infrastructure at Spotify, leading a team focused on building and evolving foundational systems that power the company's scale, resilience, performance, and developer productivity. The role involves setting direction, driving technical excellence, and fostering team growth within the Platform mission.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead, support, and grow a team of engineers working on core infrastructure systems used across Spotify
  2. Set clear direction and priorities, balancing long-term platform investments with immediate product needs
  3. Partner closely with product, engineering, and cross-functional leaders to shape infrastructure strategy
  4. Drive technical excellence, reliability, and scalability across distributed systems
  5. Foster a healthy, inclusive, and collaborative team environment where people can do their best work

Skills

Required

  • Leadership
  • Team management
  • Infrastructure strategy
  • Distributed systems
  • Technical excellence
  • Reliability
  • Scalability

Nice to have

  • Coaching
  • Feedback
  • Career growth
  • Engineering practices
  • Operational maturity
  • Continuous improvement
  • Knowledge sharing