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Do you love being in the flow as a developer and want to enable that for everyone else as well? Do you believe that the key to personal flow is in making the local developer build experience fast, well-integrated, automated and with meaningful insights? We are seeking a collaborative and curious Engineer to help drive and develop our VCS Platform forward.
Version Control System (VCS) is the heartbeat of the developer experience. Spotify's extensive growth serving 1 Billion customers has led to us closing in on operational limits, and we hence need to improve our stack to the next generation of VCS. In order to continue to provide engineering teams flawless developer experience. This role will be part of a team collaboratively creating and owning VCS Platform for Spotify which aims to provide our developers with a streamlined, simple to use and safe development experience at scale. This will also include operationally being responsible for the systems and collaborating seamlessly with our partner vendors.
The role is located in the Platform Developer Experience (PDX) Studio within the Platform Mission. The PDX Studio oversees and owns the infrastructure that cuts across all engineering disciplines at Spotify.
What You'll Do
- Execute on Spotify’s future VCS Platform strategy that is able to serve 3000+ engineers serving thousands of releases daily and enabling large scale GIT repositories
- Architect, design, develop, deploy and operate services and systems that provide the best developer experience possible including local development experience
- Collaborate with Infrastructure teams across the company to discover what a best in class VCS platform means
- Drive the DevEX and improvements of our chosen VCS across our current technical stacks
- Help scale our VCS platform to support our automated systems making mass changes across our fleet of services
- Deliver testable, maintainable and high-quality code and take operational responsibility for the components that you develop
Who You Are
- You are an experienced Software Engineer with Java, familiarity with Nodejs would be a bonus
- You have experience deploying to and implementing solutions in Kubernetes
- You believe in iteration and know that finding the right solution is more important than the first
- You like to focus on standardization and automation; always looking for ways to improve the developer experience
- You have 3+ years of experience in building and implementing large-scale systems across various projects and teams
- You have familiarity with and enthusiasm for software engineering best practices such as testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
Where You'll Be
- This role is based in 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. We ask that you come in 3 times per week.
