Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Music

uild best-in-class infrastructure and tooling to support and accelerate model training

• Work closely with research scientists to debug, optimize, and convert ML models for deployment

• Debug problems across the entire stack, from low-level debugging to high-level system design

• Collaborate with customer teams to deploy our research in products around Spotify, in backend, data, mobile, core, and other code bases

• Scope the feasibility of projects through quick prototyping to assess performance, quality, time and cost

• Help maintain crucial pieces of Spotify-owned open-source audio software infrastructure like , , and more

Who You Are

• You have professional experience working with machine learning systems

• You have a very strong grasp of Python, but are happy to work in languages like Java, Scala, C++, and others as necessary

• You have very strong communication skills and can collaborate effectively with ML researchers, product stakeholders, and executives across various geographies

• You have strong systems fundamentals and can debug problems down to the operating system level

• You have a good understanding of performance and can design and engineer systems that scale without breaking the bank

• You have experience debugging, profiling, optimizing, or deploying ML models

• You have worked with cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, or Azure

• You have proven experience implementing and maintaining large-scale production software systems

• You are interested in learning more about audio processing and music information retrieval and you're excited about building products that use such technologies

• You are willing to go on call to support the systems we build, and are willing to build systems for reliability to avoid on-call fatigue. (The team averages 1 incident per quarter.)

• Experience with deep learning techniques for content based processing (audio, image, video data) is a plus

Where You'll Be

• This role will be located in our London or Stockholm office

Our global benefits

Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.

Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.

Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents.

All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.

Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.

Learn about life at Spotify

You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what's playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It's in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service with a community of more than 500 million users.