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Staff Engineer – Identity and Access Management User Platform
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · EMEA
Experience
Lead / principal · Not stated
Level inferred from job title
Job description
Staff Engineer role in Spotify's User Platform studio, Identity and Access Management domain, shaping technical direction for identity and access capabilities at scale.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA
What you'll do
- Drive technical direction, guide architectural decisions, and lead complex engineering initiatives to evolve Spotify's identity and access management systems.
- Design and evolve distributed systems that support authentication, authorization, and identity-related capabilities across Spotify's platform.
- Partner with engineers, product managers, and security specialists to identify opportunities, align priorities, and deliver improvements to foundational platform capabilities.
- Improve system reliability, performance, observability, and operational resilience, ensuring our identity services can support Spotify's continued growth.
- Mentor and support engineers across User Platform, sharing knowledge, raising engineering standards, and creating an environment where others can grow.
- Encourage thoughtful experimentation, continuous improvement, and collaboration while taking ownership of meaningful technical outcomes.
What we're looking for
- Extensive experience designing, building, and operating large-scale systems across different platforms.
- Deep understanding of identity and access management concepts, including authentication, authorization, customer identity lifecycle management (e.g., account creation, user state, and account recovery), and secure access patterns.
- Experience influencing architecture and technical direction across multiple engineering teams, even without direct authority over their work.
- Ability to evaluate complex technical trade-offs and make pragmatic decisions that balance security, reliability, performance, and developer experience.
- Care about building resilient, observable, and maintainable systems and experience improving services operating at significant scale.
- Communicate complex technical ideas clearly, bring different perspectives into decisions, and help teams move forward together.
- Enjoy mentoring engineers, sharing knowledge, and creating an inclusive environment where people can contribute, learn, and do their best work.
Your team
User Platform studio, Identity and Access Management (IAM) domain
Within Platform, the User Platform studio builds foundational capabilities that support Spotify's user experiences at scale. The IAM domain focuses on the systems and services that help users securely access Spotify, while enabling product teams to build reliable, seamless experiences.
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About Spotify
Mission
The Platform mission creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe.
Key facts
- Team operates within the Central European and GMT time zone for collaboration
- Role can be based within the EMEA region as long as Spotify has a work location, excluding France due to on-call restrictions