Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Backend Engineer role sits at a platform layer that looks increasingly like SaaS: a Distribution API used by external partners, with clear product surface area and integration demand. Work centered on ingestion, transformation, and distribution pipelines reflects the core mechanics of modern content platforms, where APIs become the contract that enables an ecosystem of third-party tools and creator workflows.
For a SaaS career, the value is in building systems that behave like products, not just internal services. Experience here maps to common platform challenges across SaaS companies: designing stable interfaces, operating distributed services under real reliability constraints, and evolving data pipelines as new use cases appear. The emphasis on partner integration also builds instincts around backwards compatibility, observability, and change management that transfer well to other API-first businesses.
The role is best suited to engineers who prefer foundational work with measurable operational outcomes, and who enjoy collaborating across product, partner, and infrastructure stakeholders. It fits someone comfortable with on-call ownership and iterative platform evolution, and who wants their backend work to connect directly to external developer experiences and ecosystem-scale usage.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Mission Statement
The Podcast Mission develops strategies and builds products that serve creators and listeners interested in podcast and video content. As the #1 podcast platform in the world, we look to continue improving and scaling the experience of podcasts on Spotify. We build and maintain products like Spotify for Podcasters, Megaphone, and Chartable, and are always eager to provide creators with easy ways to increase their audiences on Spotify and give them new innovative means for monetization.
About the Team
Mission Control is a team within Spotify’s Podcast Platform product area, building the core infrastructure that powers how podcasts and other creator content are processed, uploaded, transformed, and distributed across Spotify. As the creator ecosystem evolves, we are expanding the systems that enable new content formats and experiences, helping creators and partners reach audiences in new ways.
At the center of this work is our Distribution API — a platform that allows creators and partners to manage, distribute, and monetize content on Spotify regardless of where it is hosted. This API is becoming a key integration point for some of the world’s largest creator platforms. The team is also exploring how advances in AI can shape the next generation of creator and listener experiences, building the APIs and infrastructure that make those possibilities real.
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What You'll Do
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Build reliable backend services that power how creator content is ingested, processed, and distributed across Spotify at massive scale
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Contribute to the development and evolution of the Distribution API, enabling seamless integration for creators and partners
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Expand ingestion pipelines to support new and emerging forms of creator content
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Build APIs and backend systems that enable AI-driven experiences and interactions across Spotify’s creator platform
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Collaborate with product managers, partner teams, and stakeholders to deliver platform capabilities used across Spotify and by external partners
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Participate in on-call and goalie rotations to ensure system reliability and performance
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Work with senior engineers to design scalable systems supporting millions of creators and pieces of content
Who You Are
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You have professional experience building backend systems, with strong experience in Java
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You are familiar with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS and relational databases like MySQL
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You understand distributed systems and have experience building APIs or services at scale
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You are comfortable moving across different parts of the stack and picking up new technologies
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You use AI-powered development tools as part of your workflow to accelerate learning and delivery
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You communicate clearly and collaborate effectively with teammates and external partners
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You thrive in fast-paced environments and adapt well to changing priorities
Where You'll Be
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This role is based in New York
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We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.
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The United States base range for this position is 103,321–147,602 USD, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six-month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.
