Machine Learning Engineering Manager - Surfaces Music

What You'll Do

• Lead and support a team of Backend, Data, and Machine Learning Engineers building recommendation systems used by hundreds of millions of listeners
• Set the technical direction for recommendation models across surfaces like Home and Now Playing
• Guide the development of candidate generation, ranking, and embedding systems that improve music discovery
• Partner with ML platform and infrastructure teams to evolve and scale generative recommendation models
• Work closely with Product, Data Science, and Design to define success metrics and turn insights into meaningful product improvements
• Ensure systems are reliable, efficient, and able to operate at global scale with low latency
• Support strong engineering practices across experimentation, model evaluation, and production monitoring

About the Team

The Surfaces Music team builds the systems that power music recommendations across some of Spotify's most visible experiences, including Home and the Now Playing view. Work across candidate generation, ranking, and embedding models to help listeners discover both new releases and deep catalog favorites. Shape the next generation of personalization through transformer-based models that bring more dynamic, context-aware recommendations to millions of listeners.