Staff Backend Engineer - Content Platform

We design Spotify’s consumer experience—end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration. Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world. That means turning complexity into clarity across hundreds of touchpoints—from our mobile and desktop apps to the smart speakers, TVs, cars, and integrations where Spotify shows up every day. If it touches a consumer, we shape it. We bring deep insight into human behavior, design, and technology to craft experiences that feel intuitive, expressive, and unmistakably Spotify.

Policy & Safety (P&S) is a domain within Content Platform in the Experience Mission, responsible for building Spotify’s content moderation and regulatory compliance infrastructure. This includes rule engines, enforcement pipelines, policy configuration systems, and compliance data platforms that ensure safety at scale.

The team operates at the intersection of backend platform engineering, machine learning systems, and regulatory compliance, partnering closely with Licensing, Trust & Safety, Legal, and Public Affairs. Sitting on the critical path for every new content type and feature, P&S enables safety-by-default experiences while supporting global regulatory requirements and evolving product innovation.

What you'll Do

• Define the technical direction for policy enforcement infrastructure

• Architect enforcement capabilities as a shared platform designed to be consumed by multiple product teams rather

• Design and evolve multi-signal orchestration systems that enable configurable, auditable policy enforcement at scale across content types and product surfaces

• Build the data foundation that makes enforcement decisions durable and reusable

• Own the hardest API and contract decisions: schema design, versioning strategy, and how enforcement interfaces evolve without breaking the teams that depend on them

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