Build like Spotify

Backstage is the foundation of Spotify’s developer experience — giving teams a centralized place to manage tools, components, and infrastructure, so they can ship faster and smarter. Watch how we do it below.

Software Catalog

Build like Sofia

When it’s easy to navigate your internal software ecosystem — no matter how sprawling — teams can discover, understand, and reuse components across the organization.

About the Software Catalog

The Software Catalog is the heart of a Backstage developer portal. It puts all your services, websites, datasets, and libraries in one place. Your developers (and your AI agents) can use it to get valuable metadata for any component at a glance, including who owns it. When everything’s easy to manage and easy to find, innovations can build on innovations. You spend less time searching and more time shipping.

Build at Spotify scale

Spotify has over 2,900 production deployments per day, 2,900 microservices in production, and 37,200 active data pipelines. How do we keep up with it all? With the Software Catalog. It lets our 800 teams manage tens of thousands of components with ease.

What’s good for your humans is also good for your AI

Backstage centralizes information about software ownership, dependencies, APIs, standards, and more — giving both developers and AI coding agents the context they need to navigate your ecosystem and build according to best practices.

Developer happiness adds up

We believe developer experience and developer productivity go hand in hand. According to our internal DevEx metrics, not only does Backstage improve developer satisfaction, it also boosts productivity by 2x.

Soundcheck

Build like Zaid

From reliability to compliance to security, it’s hard for developers to keep up with all your internal tech standards. (It’s also kinda boring.) Soundcheck’s tech health scorecards make it easy — and actually kinda fun.

About Soundcheck

As much as they may want to, your developers don’t have a lot of time to keep up with all the latest software migrations, security protocols, and testing requirements. It’s not that they don’t want to follow your standards — more often, they don’t know what those standards are. Soundcheck lets you define internal tech standards and makes them visible and actionable to their owners, improving the health of your entire ecosystem, one green check at a time.

Tech health scorecards drive alignment and standardization across your org

Soundcheck’s ability to drive standardization from the bottom up makes it one of our most popular Backstage plugins — both with teams inside Spotify and among our enterprise customers.

Didn’t pass a check? Fix it yourself — or have our coding agent automatically fix it for you

Even better than showing what’s wrong with a component, Soundcheck also shows owners exactly what they can do to fix it. As they level up in a particular health track, they earn medals. Even if it’s our background coding agent who actually did the work.

Tech insights for engineering leaders

Soundcheck isn’t just for component owners. By consolidating scattered tech health data into one unified interface, engineering leaders can use Soundcheck to analyze tech health across teams and components, allowing them to quickly identify problem areas.

AiKA: AI Knowledge Assistant

Build like Vincenzo

When your AI assistant knows what your engineering org knows, it makes all the difference between trying to be helpful and actually being helpful.

About AiKA

While general purpose chatbots are being used everywhere, they fall short when it comes to navigating company-specific information, like which internal policy applies to your team or where to find the doc someone shared in Slack three months ago. That’s why we built AiKA, our AI knowledge assistant. Since it’s integrated with Backstage, AiKA can provide employees with context-aware answers right when they need them.

Over 1,000 Spotify employees use AiKA daily

We built AiKA to empower our teams inside Spotify. Because of its speed and accuracy, what started as a hack project at Spotify has become an indispensable everyday tool for all our employees, not just our engineers.

AiKA has reduced how long it takes to resolve internal support requests at Spotify by 47%

What happens when all your teams suddenly have their own 24/7 support bot? Instead of waiting for a service owner or domain expert to get online, your developers can just ask AiKA — and get answers instantly.

The quality–discovery flywheel

Once developers see how good AiKA is at answering questions on behalf of other teams, a funny thing happens: They go back and make sure their own internal documentation is up to date, so AiKA can reduce their tech support burden, too.

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