Infrastructure Engineer with Programming Skills

Role Summary

We're looking for a strong infrastructure engineer to join the Performance Optimization Squad within the Platform mission. You'll work alongside senior engineers and a data scientist to execute on fleet-wide cost and performance optimization initiatives - building automation, implementing changes across production infrastructure, and helping the squad scale its impact across thousands of services.

This is a hands-on execution role. You'll take well-scoped optimization initiatives like rightsizing compute resources, JVM tuning, improving workload placement and drive them to completion across Spotify's fleet.

Responsibilities

• Drive initiatives to optimize infrastructure costs and performance.
• Implement automation to enhance efficiency and scalability.
• Collaborate with team members to identify and execute on optimization opportunities.
• Conduct performance tuning and reliability engineering tasks.
• Monitor and analyze cloud costs across services.
• Engage in incident response and troubleshooting as needed.

Key Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering roles.
• Solid experience with Kubernetes (ideally GKE).
• Proficient in at least two of: Java, Go, Python, with a preference for strong scripting and automation skills.
• Comfortable with Google Cloud Platform; compute, networking, IAM, and cost monitoring.
• Familiarity with IaC tools (Terraform, Helm) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of reliability engineering, performance tuning, and incident response.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with cloud cost monitoring tools (GCP Billing, BigQuery cost exports).
• Background in reliability engineering or SRE; understanding of SLOs, error budgets, and safe rollout practices.
• Experience with JVM-based services at scale.

Other Details

Start Date: 2026-07-13 to End Date: 2027-01-12.

Workplace: Stockholm, Sweden.