The Rights Systems team is driving the technical foundations of a step-change for Spotify’s business by enabling the distribution of new forms of content across the platform. This challenge involves detection of rights-protected intellectual property and facilitating rightsholder and creator management of both the rights-protected IP and the secondary content.
The journey ahead will present the team with the chance to collaborate with teams across the company (Content Platform, Financial Engineering, Label Partnership, Licensing, and others) in order to create and present novel content datasets to end-users. As the product matures, the team will stretch as they scale to broader use cases and a larger user base.
Being a cornerstone of the company’s catalog maximization strategy, the rights systems solution space will be an area of investment and growth for the company over the next 2–5 years.
What You'll Do
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
Who You Are
You have 1+ years of experience managing software engineering teams, ideally in a product-focused and cross-functional setting
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
Where You'll Be
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.
The United States base range for this position is $164,448 –$234,926 USD, 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, paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future. Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.
Spotify is a global music streaming and audio platform that enables millions of users to discover and enjoy music, podcasts, and audio content. The company builds the underlying platform infrastructure, tooling, and developer capabilities that power rapid growth and scale across its user base and business operations. Spotify's Platform team creates the technology infrastructure needed to support a billion customers, including backend systems, fleet management, data pipelines, and developer platforms like Portal and Backstage. The company is increasingly integrating AI and large language models into its core infrastructure to improve how engineers ship software and how data is collected, processed, and made available across the organization. Spotify also operates an advertising business that connects advertisers to audiences through data-driven marketing strategies and personalization.
