Security Engineer

Security engineers at Spotify protect the security of Spotify's platform and of our 750+ million users. We are looking for an experienced engineer to join us in securing the most important engineering initiatives at Spotify.

You will be working in the infrastructure security engineering area to secure the foundations of Spotify's platform. We're a distributed team building the architecture and foundations for secure cloud computing and support platform teams in building best-in-class infrastructure on it. We aim to constantly improve the security posture for our fast-paced and rapidly-changing environment in a manner that will keep up with our scale.

Responsibilities

• Champion and contribute to the development and implementation of security best practices, standards, and automated tooling to secure Spotify's use of cloud computing.
• Partner closely with teams across the company to integrate security seamlessly into Spotify's infrastructure, from ideation to deployment and monitoring.
• Consult, evangelize, and teach theoretical and practical security to groups of varying sizes, disciplines, and experience levels.
• Drive cross-disciplinary initiatives to improve the security of Spotify's engineering ecosystem and infrastructure.
• Conduct threat modeling, security reviews, and risk assessments to make risk-informed security decisions and recommendations.
• Evaluate, prototype, and integrate security solutions and tools to secure Spotify's cloud environment.
• Stay ahead of the curve on the rapidly evolving landscape of security threats, academic research, vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies relevant to Spotify's scale and domain.
• Contribute to security incident response activities involving Spotify platforms and systems.

Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on technical experience with security engineering and cloud computing.
• Hands-on security experience and expertise with one or more major cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS or Azure.
• Confidence in automating work in languages like Python, Java, or Golang with modern software development practices.
• Comfort with infrastructure-as-code and declarative configuration management.
• Hands-on experience with operating and securing Kubernetes or similar container orchestration platforms.
• Strong foundation with security skills such as cryptography, IAM, threat modeling and software security.
• Comfort working with diverse stakeholders and explaining security concepts to non-expert audiences.
• Experience working in agile environments and adapting to change.
• Experience with applying generative AI tools to security problems and software engineering tasks.
• Experience integrating security tooling into production systems at scale.

Location

• This role is based in Stockholm or London.
• We offer flexibility to work where you work best, with some in-person meetings.