Staff Engineer - Content Platform
Spotify · London
- Level
- Staff
- Type
- full-time
- Mode
- On-site / hybrid
- Posted
- 2026-09-16
- Team
- Experience
Role description
Content Platform is responsible for ingesting, processing, storing, and delivering every piece of content on Spotify — from music and podcasts to audiobooks. Within Content Platform, the Media domain owns the end-to-end media pipeline, from the moment content arrives through to seamless playback for listeners around the world. We're looking for a Staff Engineer to provide architectural leadership across this media platform. You’ll help shape and drive the technical direction from ingestion through transcoding, packaging, storage, delivery, and playback.…
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