# Staff Engineer - Content Platform

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

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## Description

Content Platform is responsible for ingesting, processing, storing, and delivering every piece of content on Spotify , from music and podcasts to audiobooks.

We're looking for a Staff Engineer to provide architectural leadership across the media platform, focusing on the technical direction from ingestion through transcoding, packaging, storage, delivery, and playback.

### Responsibilities

- Define and drive the long-term architectural direction for Spotify's media pipeline across Content Platform.

- Lead large-scale technical initiatives that span multiple squads and organizations.

- Partner closely with engineering managers, product managers, and senior engineers to align technical strategy with product priorities, reliability goals, and cost efficiency.

- Guide architectural decisions across media ingestion, transcoding, packaging, storage, content delivery, and playback.

- Author and review RFCs, architecture decision records, and technical design documents.

- Mentor senior engineers across the organization.

- Bring a cost-aware engineering mindset to understand how media architecture decisions impact compute, storage, CDN utilization, and long-term platform sustainability.

### Requirements

- Deep expertise building large-scale media platforms spanning audio, video, encoding, transcoding, packaging, delivery, and playback technologies.

- Successful experience leading architecture across multiple engineering teams.

- Significant experience designing and operating distributed systems at internet scale.

- Understanding of the architectural trade-offs between codecs, packaging formats, playback technologies, storage, networking, and infrastructure costs.

- Strong track record of leading multi-quarter technical initiatives.

- Clear communication of technical ideas through well-structured RFCs and design documents.

- Ability to build trust through collaboration and technical credibility.

- Enjoyment of mentoring experienced engineers.

### Location and Work Arrangements

- Based in London or Stockholm.

- Flexible work arrangements with some in-person meetings.

## Skills

### Required
- large-scale media platforms
- distributed systems
- media processing
- codec choices
- infrastructure costs
- technical strategy
- architecture decisions
- cost-aware engineering

### Nice to have
- cloud infrastructure providers
- CDN vendors
- large-scale media delivery ecosystems

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