Spotify
Backend Engineer - Advertising
About this role
Join Spotify's Advertising team as a Backend Engineer to design and build scalable backend services and APIs supporting hundreds of millions of users and thousands of advertisers. You'll work on distributed systems, data pipelines, and ad services infrastructure while collaborating with internal teams to deliver high-impact solutions.
What you'll do
- Design and develop scalable backend services and APIs for advertising platform
- Build and maintain data pipelines to support ad services at massive scale
- Collaborate with internal customers to understand and implement technical requirements
- Optimize distributed systems to handle hundreds of millions of users and thousands of advertisers
- Improve engineering practices and contribute to system reliability
- Work on infrastructure and tooling to support ad experiences across audio and video
What they're looking for
- Backend engineering and distributed systems design
- API development and service architecture
- Data pipeline development and data engineering
- Scalability and performance optimization
- Cloud infrastructure and deployment
- Cross-functional collaboration and communication
- Problem-solving at scale
- Software engineering best practices
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Spotify
Spotify builds music and podcast streaming technology alongside advertising and creator promotion systems at scale. The company is hiring Full Stack Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, Frontend Engineers, and Backend Engineers to work on its Ads API, music promotion ML systems, podcast infrastructure, and rights management platforms.
- Website
- spotify.com
Likely interview questions
- How have you designed backend services to handle massive scale and high throughput?
- Describe your experience with data pipelines and how you've optimized them for performance.