Site Reliability Engineer - Backstage at spotify

spotify

New York, NY·1w ago

Mid LevelFull-timeTypeScriptPythonJavaReactAWSGCPTerraformGoAI

Salary Range

$102,000 - $138,000 /year

Estimated

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About the Role

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Backstage team at Spotify. This role focuses on building and operating cloud infrastructure for a developer platform that helps create and maintain software through AI-native workflows.

Key Responsibilities

→Orchestrate the Fleet: Maintain and improve Portal’s SaaS infrastructure for reliability, security, and scalability.
→Modern Infra-as-Code: Build infrastructure on GCP and AWS using Terraform and emerging infrastructure-from-code patterns.
→Support Fullstack Systems: Operate in a modern web stack environment (TypeScript, React, Python).
→Reliability Engineering: Participate in on-call rotations to ensure systems meet reliability and availability goals.
→Collaborate & Innovate: Participate in the planning and delivery of technical projects.

Requirements

✓Cloud Native & AI Curious: Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP or AWS) and IaC tools like Terraform, with an interest in LLMs, RAG, or agents in an operational context.
✓Systems Thinker: Understands distributed systems principles and how to operate them reliably at scale.
✓Polyglot Practitioner: Experienced with at least one modern programming language (e.g., TypeScript, Java, Go, Python).
✓Quality & Automation: Prioritizes code quality and reliability, looking for ways to build systems that test themselves.
✓Growth Mindset: Eager to evolve as an engineer in a landscape where the definition of "operations" changes rapidly.