Site Reliability Engineer, Spotify
Productivity Engineering
Commercial music streaming service
Job no longer available
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
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 opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it
Role
Who you are
- You are a valued teammate in a dynamic, autonomous, cross-functional agile team
- You have experience designing, analyzing, optimizing code and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- You have had exposure to delivering identity solutions that are functional, secure, scalable, and reliable
- You have technical knowledge of IAM systems, protocols and standards including but not limited to: SAML, SCIM, OAuth, OIDC, LDAP and Okta. Product hands-on experience is a plus
- You know how to write distributed, high-performance services in Java or Python and are experienced deploying and operating services on Linux based infrastructure in GCP, Azure or AWS. Puppet and/or Terraform experience is a plus
- You have a systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of drive
- You love working on a team where you constantly learn, experiment, and iterate quickly
What the job involves
- We are looking for a passionate Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join Spotify’s Identity and Access Management team in our Productivity Engineering Studio, the team responsible for advancing the digital workplace at Spotify. This Engineer will be contributing to creating a more lightweight and robust environment to manage identity and access for Spotifiers
- Manage and improve the whole lifecycle for services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation and optimisation
- Support product rollout of new IAM features, processes and new technologies
- Work with your teammates and stakeholders to identify and mitigate complex IAM and other risk areas, including internal controls and other related opportunities for improvements
- Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
- Participate in disaster recovery, incident resolution, capacity planning, monitoring and maintenance to ensure high availability. This includes being part of a weekly goalie and on-call rotation for the team
- As an SRE in the IAM space, you will combine software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems with a focus on optimizing systems and implementing and managing identity services and platforms.
- At Spotify, our engineers are at the forefront of the SRE profession and are empowered to work on significant projects. Their expertise has been featured in both editions of O’Reilly’s “Site Reliability Handbook.”
- They achieve this from an environment that encourages intellectual curiosity, problem solving, and openness—one that provides the support and mentorship needed to “safe to fail”, to learn, and to grow
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Spotify was founded in an attempt to combat the rampant music piracy that was causing significant harm to the industry. The company has since taken music streaming mainstream and now has 180m+ paying subscribers across the world.
With features that include a highly accessible interface and a vast catalogue of artists, Spotify's strong brand has been able to maintain growth in spite of fierce competition from deep-pocketed rivals like Amazon and Apple. The company has achieved this by making smart acquisitions to move into other verticals to strengthen its offerings, especially podcasting, by acquiring Gimlet Media, Anchor and Parcast.
Spotify's future plans include rapid growth with a goal to become a one-stop destination for all digital sound, as well as AI and NFT integrations. However, high costs incurred from the acquisition of exclusive podcasts, increasing competitor strength, and weak bottom-line growth mean that the company must find a balance to maintain its position in the sector.
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Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2016
$1bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jun 2015
$526m
SERIES G
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company benefits
- Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse
- Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success
- Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents
- All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub
- Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs
Company values
- Innovative: We move fast and take big risks
- Sincere: We have no time for internal politics
- Passionate: We revel in what we do
- Collaborative: We recognise that we're all in this together
- Playful: We don't take ourselves too seriously
Company HQ
Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län
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Leadership
Daniel Ek
(CEO & Chairman)Founded Spotify in 2006. Previously worked as an executive at Tradera, an auction company that was sold to eBay and was briefly the CEO of uTorrent.
People progressing
Joined as a Conversion Manager in the Growth Team. Promoted three times over seven years to Senior Director - Head of Growth.
Joined as a Customer Advisor. Since then has had the role titles Senior Advisor, Content Associate, Team Coach, and Operations Manager - Primary Support. Hurst is now currently the Business Operations Manager of Music.
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