Engineering Manager AI Fleet Management & Honk

About the Role

The Platform Developer Experience (PDX) team at Spotify is building the next generation of fleet management and reimagining interaction with AI agents through Portal, an external developer platform built on Backstage. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team shaping how AI becomes a core operating layer of modern platform infrastructure.

What You'll Do:

• Lead and grow a team building AI-native backend systems that orchestrate large-scale, autonomous fleet changes.
• Define the technical vision for integrating LLM-powered reasoning and agent-based execution into production infrastructure.
• Architect systems where AI agents analyze service metadata, generate safe change plans, and execute updates.
• Establish safety boundaries, evaluation frameworks, and human-in-the-loop safeguards for AI-driven automation.
• Partner with product and go-to-market teams to position Portal as a leading developer platform.

Who You Are:

• You have 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams working on distributed systems or developer platforms at scale.
• You have 5+ years of experience in backend engineering with expertise in Java, Python, and/or Node.js.
• You have experience integrating AI/ML systems, LLMs, agent frameworks, or AI-assisted tooling into real-world systems.
• You understand how to design guardrails that ensure safety, reliability, and traceability in autonomous systems.
• You are comfortable leading in emerging technical domains where patterns are still forming.

Required Skills