Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Content Platform

Spotify · Consumer · London, United Kingdom +1 · Experience

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to build and scale foundational ML systems for content understanding, safety, and decisioning within Spotify's consumer experience. This role focuses on shaping the architecture and technical strategy for evaluating, governing, and safely delivering content globally, impacting both listeners and creators.

What you'd actually do

build and scale foundational ML systems that power content understanding, safety, and decisioning across the platform
shape the architecture and technical strategy that ensures content is evaluated, governed, and safely delivered at global scale
enabling new ways to interact with content across Spotify

Skills

Required

Machine Learning
System Design
MLOps
Python
Data Engineering

Nice to have

Content Moderation
NLP
Computer Vision
Recommendation Systems

What the JD emphasized

intelligent systems that can evaluate, manage, and route content reliably at global scale
content is ingested, understood, enriched, governed, and distributed across the platform
content is evaluated, governed, and safely delivered at global scale

Other signals

building and scaling foundational ML systems
content understanding, safety, and decisioning
evaluate, manage, and route content reliably at global scale
intelligent systems that can evaluate, manage, and route content reliably at global scale

Read full job description

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 Content Platform team powers the full lifecycle of content across music, podcasts, audiobooks, and emerging formats at Spotify. We ensure that everything from licensed catalog to user-generated content is trusted, safe, and high quality for millions of listeners worldwide. Our systems are responsible for how content is ingested, understood, enriched, governed, and distributed across the platform. As the scale and diversity of content continues to grow—driven by advances in AI and new creation tools—we’re building intelligent systems that can evaluate, manage, and route content reliably at global scale.

We’re seeking a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to build and scale foundational ML systems that power content understanding, safety, and decisioning across the platform. In this role, you’ll shape the architecture and technical strategy that ensures content is evaluated, governed, and safely delivered at global scale. This work is foundational to delivering safe, high-quality experiences for both listeners and creators, while enabling new ways to interact with content across Spotify.