WHAT YOU’LL DO

• As a member of a small cross functional squad, you’ll own a particular infrastructure challenge at Spotify.
• Design and document systems, including writing and reviewing code, to automate away problems within your squad’s domain.
• Undertake measured, methodical troubleshooting of complicated systems under pressure.
• Partake in an on-call rotation alongside the engineers who build our production backend.
• Work from our office in Boston, MA, USA.

WHO YOU ARE

• You have deep knowledge of Linux (we use Ubuntu) and all layers of the networking stack. You should be confident discussing in detail what’s going on under the hood.
• You are comfortable with large scale production systems and technologies, for example, load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, and configuration management.
• You have a track record of designing and executing small to medium scale systems automation projects with strong autonomy.
• You have strong coding skills in at least one programming language, and a desire to pick up more. We work primarily in Python and Java, with smatterings of shell script, Ruby, and Angular.
• You are familiar with and enthusiastic about software engineering best practices such as testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
• You have a passion for solving problems using open source software.
• You thrive in a rapidly evolving, globally distributed environment.

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users and our creators. This is something we value deeply, and we encourage everyone to come be a part of changing the way the world listens to music.