Director of Engineering - Content Platform (Catalog)
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Shape the architecture behind Spotify's content understanding at global scale
As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer on Spotify's Content Platform team, you will build and scale foundational ML systems that power content understanding, safety, policy enforcement, and decisioning across music, podcasts, audiobooks, and emerging formats. You will help shape the technical strategy for how Spotify understands and makes decisions about content at global scale, ensuring safe, high-quality experiences for listeners and cr...
Why This Role?
Help shape the architecture and technical strategy behind how Spotify understands and makes decisions about content at global scale
Key Responsibilities
- Build and scale foundational ML systems for content understanding and safety
- Develop platform-level ML systems for policy enforcement and compliance
- Focus on multimodal content understanding and risk detection
- Help shape the architecture and technical strategy for content decisioning
- Ensure content is ingested, understood, enriched, governed, and distributed reliably
Requirements
- Experience building and scaling ML systems
- Expertise in content understanding, safety, or policy enforcement
- Background in multimodal ML or platform-level systems
- Experience with global-scale content systems
- Ability to shape technical strategy and architecture
Required Skills
Indonesia Context
- Working Hours Overlap:
- Flexible — work your own hours
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Original description from Lever Postings
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. The Content Platform team powers the full lifecycle of content across music, podcasts, audiobooks, and emerging formats at Spotify. We ensure that everything from licensed catalog to user-generated content is understood, trusted, safe, and high quality for millions of listeners worldwide. Our systems are responsible for how content is ingested, understood, enriched, governed, and distributed across the platform. As the scale and diversity of content continue to grow—driven by advances in AI, new creation tools, and emerging content formats—we’re investing in intelligent systems that can understand, evaluate, manage, and route content reliably at global scale. We’re hiring Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineers to build and scale foundational ML systems that power content understanding, safety, policy enforcement, and decisioning across Spotify. Depending on your experience and interests, you may focus on areas ranging from multimodal content understanding and platform-level ML systems to safety, risk detection, policy enforcement, and compliance. You’ll help shape the architecture and technical strategy behind how Spotify understands and makes decisions about content at global scale. This work is foundational to delivering safe, high-quality experiences for listeners and creators while enabling new ways for people to interact with content across Spotify.
Salary Context
Similar Writing & Content roles on LokerDollar pay around $170k/yr (range $52k–279k/yr, n=13 active listings).
Hiring at Spotify
Spotify has 16 other active roles on LokerDollar and has been hiring here since May 7, 2026 — across Writing & Content, Design, Engineering, Marketing, Product.
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Market context
- ESTIMATEEstimated pay is 59% above the role median of $170,000/year (n=13 pay-disclosing listings).
- VERIFIEDSpotify: 43 postings in the last 3 months, 167 all-time on LokerDollar.
- VERIFIEDCompany first seen May 7, 2026.
- VERIFIEDThis listing first seen Sep 9, 2026.
- VERIFIEDLast verified live Oct 26, 2026.
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