Engineering Manager - Music

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.

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