Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Policy & Safety

Spotify Spotify · Consumer · New York, NY · Experience

Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Policy & Safety team, focusing on building ML-driven systems for content moderation, policy enforcement, and regulatory compliance within Spotify's consumer experience. This role involves working at the intersection of ML, platform engineering, and compliance to ensure safety and trust across the platform.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and build ML-driven systems for content moderation, policy enforcement, and compliance.
  2. Develop and deploy ML models for detecting policy violations.
  3. Build and maintain data pipelines for compliance and safety monitoring.
  4. Collaborate with Trust & Safety, Legal, and Public Affairs teams.
  5. Contribute to large-scale rearchitecture for proactive user protection.

Skills

Required

  • Machine Learning
  • Platform Engineering
  • Python
  • MLOps
  • Data Engineering
  • Experience with large-scale systems

Nice to have

  • Experience with content moderation systems
  • Knowledge of regulatory compliance in consumer products
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

What the JD emphasized

  • critical path
  • regulatory compliance
  • safety by default

Other signals

  • ML-driven systems
  • content moderation infrastructure
  • policy enforcement systems
  • regulatory compliance