Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Policy & Safety

at 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
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We design Spotify’s consumer experience—end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration. Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world. That means turning complexity into clarity across hundreds of touchpoints—from our mobile and desktop apps to the smart speakers, TVs, cars, and integrations where Spotify shows up every day. If it touches a consumer, we shape it. We bring deep insight into human behavior, design, and technology to craft experiences that feel intuitive, expressive, and unmistakably Spotify.

The Policy & Safety team sits within Content Platform in the Experience Mission, building the systems that keep Spotify safe, compliant, and trusted by millions of users and creators. This team owns Spotify’s content moderation infrastructure — from detection models to policy enforcement systems and compliance data pipelines.

Working at the intersection of machine learning, platform engineering, and regulatory compliance, the team partners closely with Trust & Safety, Legal, and Public Affairs. They’re on the critical path for every new content type and social feature — including messaging, comments, and collaborative experiences — ensuring safety is built in from day one. With a strong focus on “safety by default,” the team is investing in large-scale rearchitecture and ML-driven systems to proactively protect users and empower safer interactions across the platform.

What You'll Do

Who You Are

Where You'll Be

The United States base range for this position is $184,050 - $262,928 USD, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six-month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.