# Release Engineer

**Company**: Spotify
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/spotify/830106b6-0055-4003-bcaa-370648915622
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_379111ee-d1e

## Description

The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. You will join the Release squad within our Client Platform Studio in the Platform mission. This team builds the tools, systems, and workflows that enable Spotify engineers to release software safely, quickly, and with confidence.

We focus on reliability, developer productivity, and standardization,powering the invisible machinery behind Spotify’s engineering experience. You’ll work on internal platforms that impact thousands of engineers and directly shape how software gets delivered at scale.

### Responsibilities

- Build and maintain backend services and tooling that power Spotify’s release coordination workflows

- Work on systems that manage release trains, rollout orchestration, and deployment state across services

- Collaborate with Platform, Infrastructure, and SRE teams to ensure safe and predictable releases

- Contribute to improving developer experience through scalable and reliable internal tooling

- Participate in on-call rotations to support release tooling in production

- Pair with experienced engineers to grow your technical skills and take on increasing ownership

- Learn and contribute to Spotify’s release processes by working closely with Release Managers

### Requirements

- 2+ years of experience building backend systems in a production environment

- Experienced with Java and comfortable working in backend service architectures

- Understand distributed systems fundamentals and how to design reliable services

- Familiar with system design principles and building scalable backend systems

- Collaborate effectively and value open feedback, learning, and shared ownership

- Comfortable working in agile teams and contributing to continuous improvement

- Interested in infrastructure, platform engineering, and developer tooling

### Benefits

- Flexible working arrangements, including remote work options

- Comprehensive health insurance

- Access to a range of employee benefits, including a pension scheme and life assurance

- Opportunities for professional development and growth

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- backend service architectures
- distributed systems fundamentals
- system design principles
- scalable backend systems

### Nice to have
- continuous integration and delivery practices
- data pipelines
- Scala