Backend Engineer II - Platform

Join Spotify's Observability and Reliability Infrastructure team as a Backend Engineer II, where you'll be instrumental in building and maintaining their large-scale, distributed systems. This role focuses on providing coherent observability and reliability platforms for Spotify's microservice infrastructure, enabling teams to confidently operate their services.

As a Backend Engineer II, you'll work in an environment that values intellectual curiosity and problem-solving, with the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow. You'll be responsible for architecting, developing, and operating Java services, while also being a technical leader within Spotify's backend developer community.

The position offers exciting challenges in scaling and optimizing systems through automation, working with modern technologies like Kubernetes, Go, and various cloud services. You'll be part of a team that values sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems, contributing to Spotify's mission of delivering media worldwide.

Located in Toronto, this hybrid role provides an opportunity to work with a global team while maintaining work-life balance. You'll participate in regular hack days and bi-annual hack weeks, allowing you to explore innovative solutions and contribute to Spotify's technical evolution.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise in distributed systems, Java development, and cloud services with excellent problem-solving and communication skills. If you're passionate about building reliable, scalable systems and want to impact how millions of users experience music and audio content, this role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of Spotify's infrastructure.