Site Reliability Engineer, Backstage

About the Role

Are you passionate about creating fast, dependable, and scalable infrastructure for a product used by engineering teams worldwide? Spotify’s Backstage team is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to help build a developer platform that enhances the developer experience—and we’re moving quickly.

As a member of our expanding engineering team, you’ll design, build, and manage the cloud infrastructure for our external developer portal. You’ll work closely with skilled engineers and gain hands-on experience with challenges around scale, observability, and security in a real production environment.

This role is perfect for someone who thrives in a startup-like atmosphere, enjoys infrastructure work, and wants to make a big impact supporting a product used globally by engineers.

Backstage isn’t just a platform—it’s a revolutionary tool in the developer community. Originally created at Spotify to improve developer tools, it’s now a leading solution for developer portals worldwide, helping both large companies and small teams boost developer satisfaction.

By joining the Backstage team, you’ll help shape the developer experience for companies of all sizes, contribute to an active open-source community, and influence the future of developer tooling for millions.

What You’ll Do

• Ensure and improve Backstage’s infrastructure reliability, security, and scalability.

• Take part in on-call rotations to keep systems reliable and available.

• Collaborate with senior engineers to build cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS using Terraform and other infrastructure-as-code tools.

• Work with security and compliance teams to implement best practices and safeguards.

• Develop tools and automation to help teams deploy, monitor, and manage services efficiently.

• Support fullstack systems (the product is built with TypeScript and React), so familiarity with the web stack is helpful.

• Participate in planning and delivering technical projects alongside product and engineering teams.

Who You Are

• Experienced with cloud platforms like GCP or AWS and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.

• Knowledgeable about distributed systems and how to maintain their reliability at scale.

• Skilled in at least one modern programming language (TypeScript, Java, Go, Python) and comfortable navigating fullstack applications.

• Care about code quality, reliability, and continuously improving systems through automation and testing.

• Collaborative, open to feedback, and eager to learn and grow as an engineer.

• Bonus if you’ve contributed to open-source projects or shared tooling.

Location & Benefits

• This position is based in New York, with flexible remote work options and occasional in-person meetings.

• Salary range in the U.S. is $125,562 to $179,374, plus equity.

• Benefits include health insurance, six months paid parental leave, 401(k), monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 flexible holidays, and paid sick leave.

• Job level and salary are decided based on experience and interview performance.

Spotify is currently the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.