# Director of Engineering - Content Platform (Catalog)

**Company**: Spotify
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: Permanent
**Salary**: $281,196 - $401,709
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## 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.

This position sits at the heart of Spotify's Content Platform, responsible for the systems that define, structure, and govern 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.

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 helping us scale intentionally while maintaining the trust and quality our users and creators expect.

We're 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.

### Responsibilities

- Lead and develop multiple engineering teams through engineering managers, supporting their growth and impact.

- Own and drive the technical strategy for a critical platform domain, aligning it with broader company and platform goals.

- Enable teams across Spotify to build product experiences efficiently by improving the underlying catalog systems.

- Guide the evolution and modernization of complex legacy systems into scalable, reliable architecture.

- Partner closely with product and cross-functional leaders to align priorities and drive execution.

- Improve system reliability and reduce operational friction in workflows that directly impact content availability.

- Identify and apply opportunities for automation and AI to improve data quality and engineering productivity.

- Build an inclusive engineering culture where teams continuously improve how they work and deliver.

- Develop and execute a long-term roadmap that balances immediate priorities with strategic investments.

### Requirements

- Experience leading engineering organizations through other leaders and scaling teams effectively.

- Worked on complex, data-intensive systems where accuracy, consistency, and reliability at scale are critical.

- Strong system design and architectural decision-making experience in distributed systems.

- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making thoughtful trade-offs in high-impact environments.

- Experience evolving legacy systems and guiding long-term platform transformations.

- Influence effectively across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.

- Experience leading distributed teams and creating alignment across locations.

- Communicate clearly and explain complex technical topics to a range of audiences.

- Curious about how AI and automation can improve systems and workflows and apply that thinking pragmatically.

- Care about building inclusive, collaborative environments where teams can grow and do their best work.

### Location and Flexibility

- This role is based in London.

- We offer flexibility to work where you work best, with some in-person meetings.

### Additional Information

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, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave.

## Skills

### Required
- system design
- architectural decision-making
- distributed systems
- legacy system evolution
- platform transformation
- team leadership
- engineering management

### Nice to have
- AI
- automation

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