Role details
- Our mission on the Advertising Product & Technology team is to build a next generation advertising platform that aligns with our unique value proposition for audio and video.
- We work to scale the user experience for hundreds of millions of fans and hundreds of thousands of advertisers.
- This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities for our artists and creators.
- We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Ad Serving squad.
- This squad is responsible for ranking ads, conducting the auction, enforcing floor prices, applying blacklist filters, and honoring competitive separation.
- We build and maintain services that process millions of ad decisions per second.
- We sit at a critical intersection between advertiser delivery goals, business logic, platform revenue, and ad experience quality.
- We are looking for someone who is motivated by user and business problems as much as they are by technical problems.
- Someone who thrives under ambiguity, experimentation, and iteration.
- You will work directly on the real-time systems that evaluate, score, and select ads across Spotify's global inventory.
- You will collaborate with our cross-functional teams to ideate, develop, and own complex technical solutions on our ad ranking and auction platforms.
- As someone who shares our passion for building reliable, high-scale ad infrastructure, you'll have a direct impact on how advertisers reach audiences on Spotify.
- The United States base range for this position is $164,448.00 - 234,926.00, plus equity.
- The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays.
- This range encompasses multiple levels.
- Leveling is determined during the interview process.
- Placement in a level depends on relevant work history and interview performance.
- These ranges may be modified in the future.
- Spotify is an equal opportunity employer.
- 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.
- At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone.
- We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need.
- If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we're here to support you in any way we can.