Senior iOS/Infrastructure Engineer

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At Spotify, we are dedicated to enhancing the productivity and efficiency of our development processes. Engineers in the Client Platform studio work across various squads to ensure efficient, reliable, and scalable client development.

As a Platform & Infrastructure Engineer in Client Platform you will play a crucial role in ensuring that our platform scales seamlessly and supports the rapid development and deployment of high-quality code. The focus is to iteratively improve the speed and accuracy of PR builds, enabling our developers to deliver features faster and with greater confidence. In this studio, we manage and optimize the infrastructure that supports the development of numerous Pull Requests (PRs) daily, ensuring that our platform can handle high volumes of builds efficiently. This has to be balanced with maintaining robust systems that prioritize safety and reliability, ensuring that our development processes are resilient and dependable. We also make sure to develop tools and processes to monitor and enhance code quality, with a particular emphasis on detecting and mitigating flakiness in tests and builds.

We are looking for a talented and driven iOS Engineer with a specialization in Infrastructure. Your primary responsibilities will include improving the infrastructure that supports Spotify's cross functional teams, ensuring comprehensive testing processes, and optimizing our Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines.

What You'll Do

• Develop and Maintain CI Pipelines: Design, implement, and maintain CI pipelines to ensure efficient and reliable build, test, and deployment processes for iOS applications
• Automate Testing Processes: Create and improve automated testing frameworks and tools to ensure comprehensive test coverage and high-quality releases
• Collaborate with Development Teams: Work closely with iOS developers to integrate CI/CD and testing practices into their workflows and ensure smooth and efficient code merges
• Enhance Code Review Processes: Implement and maintain tools and processes for code review, to ensure code quality and consistency
• Monitor CI Systems: Continuously monitor the health and performance of CI systems, identifying and addressing bottlenecks and issues.
• Write clean and maintainable code that will scale across a number of projects and distributed development teams
• Share knowledge, promote best practices, and collaborate with some of the best engineers in the company
• Improve developer experience, the team is driven by a strong focus on clean APIs and engineering efficiency

Who You Are

• You have 5+ years of proven experience in software development
• iOS development using Swift and Objective-C.
• managing and optimizing large-scale infrastructure and platform services.
• You have a strong understanding of CI/CD principles and best practices.
• You have a phenomenal ability to learn and expand your areas of expertise to tackle the problems in front of you.
• You are an inclusive colleague and a true phenomenal teammate.
• You have strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• You're passionate about your work, striving towards the goals of the team and, ultimately, the Spotify mission - "giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be passionate about it"
• Experience with CI tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, BuildKite or equivalent
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and tools for iOS (e.g., XCTest, XCUITest)
• Familiarity with identifying and resolving issues related to code quality and test flakiness.

Where You'll Be

• You'll be based in Stockholm, Sweden or London, UK.