Core/C++ Engineer - Advertising

Our mission on the Advertising Product & Technology team is to build a next generation advertising platform that aligns with our unique value proposition for audio and video. We work to scale the user experience for hundreds of millions of fans and hundreds of thousands of advertisers. This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities for our artists and creators.

Advertising R&D brings value to Spotify through our ad platform, allowing us to monetize the free tier and podcast content with ads. Client Delivery, a squad within the Ad Performance Platform product area, is looking to hire a C++ engineer. Client Delivery is responsible for key backend services, C++ services, and data pipelines that deliver thousands of concurrent ad campaigns to millions of users globally. We care about the timing and delivery of an ad. A motto of our team is, “if there is an available ad to play, ensure that the ad does play.”

• Help our squad own and maintain the C++ tools and libraries required to enable teams to test the C++ code they write
• Become a subject matter expert with regard to testing C++ code, and be able to assist others in testing their code effectively and efficiently
• Support features with robust and flexible metadata fetching from backend, caching, and querying in the Spotify client
• Contribute to the shared C++ library powering our mobile and desktop clients
• Partner with Data Scientists to understand and improve user experience
• Enable low latency playback even in the most ambitious network conditions
• Make sure off lining content works optimally and intuitively
• Ensure quality through automated testing

• You have experience writing C++ code, including some experience testing
• You are an advocate for code quality and want to enable people to produce high-quality, well-tested code.
• You are interested in learning new things, always interested in expanding your breadth of knowledge as well as depth.
• You may have some experience in other related domains, like mobile development, embedded programming, or even build infrastructure or testing infrastructure support
• You have an interest in networking and data synchronization
• Cooperation with others while solving sophisticated problems is natural for you and you really want to make a difference
• End-user experience, high quality, agile values and modern engineering practices are what drives you

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the Americas region as long as we have a work location.
• This team operates within the Eastern time zone for collaboration.

The United States base range for this position is $125,562 to $179,374 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. This range encompasses multiple levels. Leveling is determined during the interview process. Placement in a level depends on relevant work history and interview performance. 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 transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.