Job Description
The Platform team at Spotify creates the technology that enables rapid growth in our users and business. The Platform Developer Experience (PDX) team is focused on building the infrastructure and internal products that power how Spotify engineers ship software. The Wingspan team is working on the next generation of fleet management, leveraging AI agents and large language models to enhance developer interactions.
### What You'll Do
- Lead and grow a team building AI-native backend systems for large-scale, autonomous fleet changes.
- Define the technical vision for integrating LLM-powered reasoning and agent-based execution into production infrastructure.
- Architect systems where AI agents analyze service metadata, generate safe change plans, execute updates, and validate outcomes.
- Establish safety boundaries, evaluation frameworks, and observability models for AI-driven automation.
- Drive responsible AI adoption by embedding governance, auditability, and human-in-the-loop safeguards into system design.
- Balance rapid experimentation with platform reliability, ensuring intelligent automation meets production-grade standards.
- Partner with product and go-to-market teams to position Portal and AI fleet management as a leading developer platform.
- Build a team culture grounded in curiosity, technical rigor, and continuous learning in emerging AI systems.
### Who You Are
- 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams working on distributed systems or developer platforms at scale.
- 5+ years of experience in backend engineering with expertise in Java, Python, and/or Node.js.
- Experience integrating AI/ML systems, LLMs, or AI-assisted tooling into real-world systems.
- Understanding of autonomous systems decision-making and design guardrails for safety and reliability.
- Comfortable leading in emerging technical domains with evolving patterns.
- Ability to create inclusive environments where diverse perspectives strengthen technical and product decisions.