Engineering Manager - Music
Build technical foundations for new content distribution across Spotify's platform
The Rights Systems team enables distribution of new content forms by detecting rights-protected IP and facilitating rightsholder management. They collaborate with Content Platform, Financial Engineering, Label Partnership, and Licensing teams to create novel content datasets for end-users. As the product matures, the team scales to broader use cases and a larger user base as part of Spotify's catalog maximization strategy.
Why This Role?
Be a cornerstone of Spotify's catalog maximization strategy with 2–5 years of investment and growth
Key Responsibilities
- Drive technical foundations for new content distribution across the platform
- Enable detection of rights-protected intellectual property
- Facilitate rightsholder and creator management of rights-protected IP and secondary content
- Collaborate with Content Platform, Financial Engineering, Label Partnership, and Licensing teams
- Create and present novel content datasets to end-users
- Scale solutions to broader use cases and a larger user base as the product matures
Required Skills
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The Rights Systems team is driving the technical foundations of a step-change for Spotify’s business by enabling the distribution of new forms of content across the platform. This challenge involves detection of rights-protected intellectual property and facilitating rightsholder and creator management of both the rights-protected IP and the secondary content. The journey ahead will present the team with the chance to collaborate with teams across the company (Content Platform, Financial Engineering, Label Partnership, Licensing, and others) in order to create and present novel content datasets to end-users. As the product matures, the team will stretch as they scale to broader use cases and a larger user base. Being a cornerstone of the company’s catalog maximization strategy, the rights systems solution space will be an area of investment and growth for the company over the next 2–5 years.
Salary Context
Similar Engineering roles on LokerDollar pay around $206.75k/yr (range $19.575k–2846.004k/yr, n=458 active listings).
Hiring at Spotify
Spotify has 22 other active roles on LokerDollar and has been hiring here since May 7, 2026 — across Engineering, Product, AI.
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Frequently asked questions
- Is Engineering Manager - Music at Spotify a remote job?
- This role is based in Remote. See the listing for remote/onsite details.
- What type of employment is Engineering Manager - Music at Spotify?
- This is a full time position.
- How do I apply?
- Click the "Apply" button on this page to go to the official application at Spotify.
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