Software Engineer, Agent Engine · Spotify

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:15:50 GMT
Engineering

Spotify · New York City · $281,196 - $401,709 · remote

Join Spotify's Personalization team in building the next generation of intelligent listening experiences. As a Software Engineer on our Agent Engine team, you will lead the technical architecture of Spotify's Agent Engine, a shared runtime that powers agent-based experiences across the platform. You will guide the transition of existing agent-powered features into a unified system, balancing speed, reliability, and real-world product constraints. You will also design how internal systems can be exposed as agent capabilities, enabling seamless integration across recommendations, search, catalog, and more.

Responsibilities:

Lead the technical architecture of Spotify's Agent Engine

Guide the transition of existing agent-powered features into a unified system

Design how internal systems can be exposed as agent capabilities

Build and improve evaluation systems that help teams measure quality, reliability, and user impact with confidence

Partner with research and machine learning teams to define what belongs in system design versus model capabilities

Explore and prototype new approaches to agent-based systems, and bring successful ideas into production at scale

Support best practices in building production-ready AI systems, including experimentation, observability, and performance optimization

Contribute to technical standards that help teams move faster while maintaining security and reliability

Requirements:

You are comfortable working across system design, infrastructure, and machine learning concepts, and enjoy connecting these areas

You have experience with areas such as agent orchestration, LLM infrastructure, evaluation systems, or data pipelines for machine learning

You have worked on platform or consolidation efforts that bring multiple systems or teams together

You are able to make progress in ambiguous problem spaces and bring structure to open-ended challenges

You communicate clearly and work well with engineering, product, and research partners across different levels of the organization

You stay informed on developments in AI and are motivated to apply new ideas in practical ways

You take a pragmatic approach to building, using prototypes and iteration to move ideas forward

You take ownership of outcomes and proactively manage risks, trade-offs, and expectations

Where You'll Be:

We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North America region as long as we have a work location

This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration

Additional Information:

The United States base range for this position is $281,196 - $401,709 plus equity

The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave

These ranges may be modified in the future