Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Spotify is a music streaming and technology company developing the technical foundations for distributing new forms of content and managing copyright and rightsholder data. The Engineering Manager will lead a team building and operating RightsDB, guide technical strategy and delivery, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, legal, rights operations, and content stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Manage and support a team of 7–8 engineers developing the core RightsDB, a new foundational database that serves as a centralized repository for copyright and rightsholder ownership data
- Support ongoing RightsDB work, including enabling new video content to more automatically make its way to platform by implementing a Publishing Deny List (PDL) and ingesting UGC rights via DDEX
- Provide mentorship, coaching, and technical guidance to team members to help them identify their growth path and develop their skills aligned to their goals
- Foster a positive, inclusive, and growth-oriented culture where individuals feel empowered and supported in their careers
- Partner closely with the product manager and cross-functional stakeholders (design, legal, rights operations) to define scope, roadmap, and priorities
- Ensure alignment between business needs and technical implementation and establish squad technical strategy to support healthy delivery cycles
- Manage timelines and ensure reliable, timely feature delivery while scaling project ownership across the team
- Oversee platform operations including performance, security, incident response, and on-call rotations
- Encourage a culture of experimentation, continuous improvement, and technical ownership
- Collaborate with internal teams, including legal, rights operations, and content, to ensure the Spotify Rights Center evolves with regulatory needs and continues to meet expectations of rightsholders
Skills
- You have 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience, including web, backend, or full-stack development
- You have experience working with web technologies, distributed systems, or cloud platforms
- You are comfortable managing stakeholders from both technical and non-technical backgrounds
- You have experience delivering outcomes in a highly collaborative environment
- You care deeply about user experience, data accuracy, and system integrity, especially in legal or IP-sensitive domains
- You have a growth mindset and a passion for building scalable systems
- You support and empower your team to do their best work
- You have familiarity with the music or media rights domain or similar IP-centric industries
- You have familiarity with content management systems, legal compliance platforms, or large-scale data pipelines
- You have familiarity with platform migrations, user access control models, or third-party integrations
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North Americas region as long as we have a work location
- This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration
- You have 1+ years of experience managing software engineering teams, ideally in a product-focused and cross-functional setting
Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Six-month paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Monthly meal allowance
- 23 paid days off
- Paid flexible holidays
- Paid sick leave
- Flexible work location within the North Americas region, as long as Spotify has a work location
- Mentorship, coaching, and technical guidance to help team members identify their growth path and develop their skills
- A positive, inclusive, and growth-oriented culture where individuals feel empowered and supported in their careers
Company Overview
Company H1B Sponsorship