What You'll Do

• Drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the client connectivity at Spotify, ensuring they meet the evolving needs of our engineering teams and support company bets.
• Deeply understand the developer experience and the challenges engineers face with client-to-backend communication, and translate those insights into impactful platform improvements.
• Define and analyze metrics that measure end-to-end connectivity performance, including reliability, latency, power consumption, and cost, using data to inform your product decisions.
• Collaborate closely with the engineering manager and the engineers on the Connectivity team, as well as with key partners in backend traffic and other client-facing studios.
• Serve as a "developer evangelist" for the connectivity platform, championing its benefits and guiding teams on best practices for building resilient and efficient features.
• Stay current with industry trends in mobile networking, modern transport protocols, and real-time messaging to evolve our platform and unblock future innovation.

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Who You Are

• You have a strong technical background and are comfortable engaging in in-depth discussions about complex client-server systems and networking protocols. 
• You are passionate about building outstanding developer experiences and understand what a great internal platform looks like.
• You have experience with client networking fundamentals (HTTP/2+, gRPC, TLS, caching, retries), Pub/Sub messaging systems, and strategies for improving performance in resource-constrained mobile environments.
• You are an excellent communicator who can articulate a compelling vision and bring complex ideas to a wide range of audiences, from client engineers to backend infrastructure specialists and senior leadership.
• Experience with developers as your primary users is a major plus!

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Where You'll Be