[All remote jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)[![Spotify logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2021/03/Jobicy-210328105941-289246.jpg)](https://jobicy.com/company/spotify.md)[Spotify](https://jobicy.com/company/spotify.md) # Director of Engineering – Content Platform (Catalog) Review the role, location requirements, compensation details, and application process before deciding whether this opportunity fits your next career move. [Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/spotify.md)ShareRemote from[UK](https://jobicy.com/job-region/uk.md), [Sweden](https://jobicy.com/job-region/sweden.md)SalaryUndisclosedDepartment[Software Engineering](https://jobicy.com/categories/engineering.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceDirectorPublished3 Oct 2026Apply before2 Nov 2026Listing views30Application actions2Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. AI Summary ## The role, at a glance. Spotify is hiring a Director of Engineering to lead the Content Platform Catalog domain, which provides trusted systems for defining, governing, and distributing content across Spotify experiences. The role manages multiple engineering teams through engineering managers and owns technical strategy, roadmaps, platform modernization, and operational reliability. It requires deep expertise in distributed, data-intensive systems where content accuracy, consistency, and availability are critical at global scale. The director will partner with product and business leaders, evolve legacy architecture, and apply automation and AI pragmatically to improve data quality and engineering productivity. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 5/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 5/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThis is a senior leadership role accountable for a business-critical global platform, multiple teams, complex legacy modernization, and long-term technical strategy. Success depends on simultaneously managing organizational scaling, high-stakes architectural trade-offs, cross-functional alignment, and reliability outcomes. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles. Estimated job medianMarket rate$230,000US market range$200k–$280k0$308k AI insightNo actual salary is disclosed in the posting. This is an estimated US annual base-salary market range in USD for a Director of Engineering leading a large-scale, data-intensive platform organization; total compensation may be materially higher when equity and bonuses are included. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. [Engineering leadership](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Engineering%20leadership.md)[Distributed systems](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Distributed%20systems.md)[Platform architecture](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Platform%20architecture.md)[Data platforms](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Data%20platforms.md)[Catalog management](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Catalog%20management.md)[Legacy modernization](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Legacy%20modernization.md)[Technical strategy](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Technical%20strategy.md)[People management](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=People%20management.md)[System reliability](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=System%20reliability.md)[AI automation](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=AI%20automation.md) Sample interview questionsHow would you develop a technical strategy for a global content catalog platform with significant legacy components?I would begin with an evidence-based assessment of system health, critical user and business workflows, data-quality risks, ownership boundaries, and architectural constraints. I would define a target architecture and measurable outcomes, then sequence investments through a roadmap that protects reliability while incrementally retiring or isolating high-risk legacy components. The strategy would be reviewed regularly with product, operations, and engineering stakeholders as assumptions and priorities evolve. Describe how you lead multiple engineering teams through engineering managers. I establish clear outcomes, operating principles, and decision rights while giving managers meaningful ownership of their teams and execution plans. I use regular one-on-ones, leadership forums, health metrics, and calibration to develop managers, surface risks early, and maintain alignment. My goal is to create leaders who can make sound decisions independently while remaining connected to the broader platform strategy. What metrics would you use to assess the health of this content platform? I would combine reliability measures such as availability, latency, incident frequency, and recovery time with domain measures such as content completeness, accuracy, freshness, workflow success rates, and time to content availability. I would also track delivery predictability, operational toil, developer experience, and adoption of shared platform capabilities. The metrics should connect technical health directly to creator, consumer, and internal-team outcomes. How would you identify appropriate AI and automation opportunities in content-quality workflows? I would prioritize repetitive, high-volume tasks with measurable quality baselines, such as metadata validation, anomaly detection, classification assistance, and operational triage. Each use case would have explicit accuracy thresholds, human-review paths, privacy and governance controls, and monitoring for drift or unintended impact. Automation should reduce toil and improve quality without obscuring accountability for critical catalog decisions. How do you handle disagreement among senior engineering, product, and business stakeholders on a major platform investment? I make the decision context explicit by documenting the desired outcomes, constraints, alternatives, risks, cost of delay, and evidence behind each option. I facilitate discussion around trade-offs rather than positions, seek alignment on the decision owner, and escalate only when necessary. Once a decision is made, I communicate the rationale clearly and establish checkpoints to validate whether the chosen approach is delivering the expected results. Opportunity details ## About this role. 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. This position sits at the heart of Spotify’s Content Platform, responsible for the systems that define, structure, and govern content across the platform. Our mission is to provide a trusted, consistent source of truth so content can be reliably managed and reused across every Spotify experience. We build and operate the core systems and workflows that ensure content is accurate, complete, and available, from APIs and lifecycle orchestration through to content quality and integrity. As Spotify’s content ecosystem continues to grow in scale and complexity across new formats, use cases, and regulatory environments, this domain plays a critical role in helping us scale intentionally while maintaining the trust and quality our users and creators expect. We’re seeking a Director of Engineering to lead this domain, shaping its technical direction, developing teams, and evolving the systems that underpin Spotify’s global content platform. ### What You’ll Do * Lead and develop multiple engineering teams through engineering managers, supporting their growth and impact. * Own and drive the technical strategy for a critical platform domain, aligning it with broader company and platform goals. * Enable teams across Spotify to build product experiences efficiently by improving the underlying catalog systems. * Guide the evolution and modernization of complex legacy systems into scalable, reliable architecture. * Partner closely with product and cross-functional leaders to align priorities and drive execution. * Improve system reliability and reduce operational friction in workflows that directly impact content availability. * Identify and apply opportunities for automation and AI to improve data quality and engineering productivity. * Build an inclusive engineering culture where teams continuously improve how they work and deliver. * Develop and execute a long-term roadmap that balances immediate priorities with strategic investments. ### Who You Are * You have experience leading engineering organizations through other leaders and scaling teams effectively. * You have worked on complex, data-intensive systems where accuracy, consistency, and reliability at scale are critical. * You bring strong system design and architectural decision-making experience in distributed systems. * You are comfortable navigating ambiguity and making thoughtful trade-offs in high-impact environments. * You have experience evolving legacy systems and guiding long-term platform transformations. * You influence effectively across engineering, product, and business stakeholders. * You have experience leading distributed teams and creating alignment across locations. * You communicate clearly and can explain complex technical topics to a range of audiences. * You are curious about how AI and automation can improve systems and workflows and apply that thinking pragmatically. * You care about building inclusive, collaborative environments where teams can grow and do their best work. ### Where You’ll Be * This role is based in Stockholm or London * We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home. ### Compensation ### Additional Information Show more [Apply now >](https://jobicy.com/jobs/154481-director-of-engineering-content-platform-catalog.md) > Annual salary information is not provided for this position. 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