Director of Engineering, Experience

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  • Spotify
  • Stockholm,
  • Full-Time
  • 4 weeks ago
Spotify
Published
April 24, 2026
Location
Stockholm, Sweden
Job Type

Director of Engineering, Experience: our view in 3 lines...

  • The Role: This role is for a senior engineering leader responsible for platform and experience engineering at a consumer audio streaming company. The person will lead multiple engineering teams and managers to own technical strategy, modernise legacy systems, improve reliability and enable cross‑company product teams.
  • Requirements: The posting explicitly seeks experience leading engineering organisations, system design and architectural decision‑making in distributed systems. It also names experience with complex data‑intensive systems, evolving legacy platforms, and applying automation and AI to improve data quality and engineering productivity.

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.

Delivering the best Spotify experience possible. To as many people as possible. In as many moments as possible. That’s what the Experience Mission is all about. We use our deep understanding of consumer expectations to enrich the lives of millions of users around the world, bringing the music, audio, and video they love to the devices, apps, and platforms they use every day.

This position sits at the heart of Spotify’s Content Platform, responsible for the systems that define, structure, and govern all content across the platform. Our mission is to provide a trusted, consistent source of truth so content can be reliably managed and reused across every Spotify experience. We build and operate the core systems and workflows that ensure content is accurate, complete, and available; from APIs and life cycle orchestration through to content quality and integrity.

As Spotify’s content ecosystem continues to grow in scale and complexity — across new formats, use cases, and regulatory environments — this domain plays a critical role in ensuring we scale intentionally while maintaining the trust and quality our users and creators expect.

We’re now seeking a Director of Engineering to lead this domain — shaping its technical direction, developing teams, and evolving the systems that underpin Spotify’s global content platform.

 

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.
Key Skills
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System Architecture Distributed Systems Platform Strategy Scalability Engineering Data Quality Automation/ai Application Modernisation Of Legacy Systems C R

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