Senior Backend Engineer - Music

About the Role

The Music Mission team owns Spotify's end to end proposition for music creators and the experiences they create for fans. The Rights Systems team builds and operates Spotify Rights Center (SRC) — Spotify's rights management platform that enables Spotify and its partners to identify, manage, and enforce music licensing rights across all the content Spotify has to offer.

Over the past year, the team shipped SRC from inception to a fully operational production platform, growing from one squad to three squads (~30 people). The team is continuing to scale as an area of strategic investment over the next 2–5 years.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and operate backend services and data pipelines that power Spotify Rights Center
• Partner closely with product, insights, design, and engineering peers to understand the needs of external rightsholders and internal partners
• Deliver scalable, testable, maintainable backend systems with strong operational ownership
• Help evolve the platform architecture as it expands to more licensors, territories, and content types, including shifts from batch processing toward event-driven patterns
• Support timely delivery of technical solutions aligned to business needs