Data Engineer, Spotify
Content Understanding
$122.7-175.3k
Plus equity
Commercial music streaming service
Be an early applicant
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$122.7-175.3k
Plus equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
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 opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for engineers who are very enthusiastic about data to focus on building structured, high-quality data solutions
- You have professional data engineering experience and you know how to work with high volume, heterogeneous data, preferably with distributed systems such as Hadoop, BigTable, Cassandra, GCP, AWS or Azure
- You know Scala language well, and are interested in spreading this knowledge in the team
- You have experience with one or more higher-level JVM-based data processing frameworks such as Beam, Dataflow, Crunch, Scalding, Storm, Spark, Flink etc
- You might have worked with Docker as well as Luigi, Airflow, or similar tools
- You are passionate about crafting clean code and have experience in coding and building data pipelines
- You care about agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation
- You understand the value of collaboration and partnership within teams
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer in our Content Understanding teams, you will help define and build ML deployed at scale in support of a broad range of use cases driving value in media and catalog understanding
- Build large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines with data processing frameworks such as Scio, Spark on Google Cloud Platform
- Leverage best practices in continuous integration and delivery
- Help drive optimisation, testing and tooling to improve data quality
- Collaborate with other Software Engineers, ML Engineers, Data Scientists and other stakeholders, taking on learning and leadership opportunities that will arise every single day
- Create and maintain metrics datasets as well as dashboards that power data driven decisions
- Work in an agile team to continuously experiment, iterate and deliver on new product objectives
- Work on machine learning projects powering the experience that suits each user individually
Our take
Spotify was founded in an attempt to combat the rampant music piracy that was causing significant harm to the industry. The company has since taken music streaming mainstream and now has 180m+ paying subscribers across the world.
With features that include a highly accessible interface and a vast catalogue of artists, Spotify's strong brand has been able to maintain growth in spite of fierce competition from deep-pocketed rivals like Amazon and Apple. The company has achieved this by making smart acquisitions to move into other verticals to strengthen its offerings, especially podcasting, by acquiring Gimlet Media, Anchor and Parcast.
Spotify's future plans include rapid growth with a goal to become a one-stop destination for all digital sound, as well as AI and NFT integrations. However, high costs incurred from the acquisition of exclusive podcasts, increasing competitor strength, and weak bottom-line growth mean that the company must find a balance to maintain its position in the sector.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2016
$1bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jun 2015
$526m
SERIES G
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company benefits
- Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse
- Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success
- Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents
- All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub
- Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs
Company values
- Innovative: We move fast and take big risks
- Sincere: We have no time for internal politics
- Passionate: We revel in what we do
- Collaborative: We recognise that we're all in this together
- Playful: We don't take ourselves too seriously
Company HQ
Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län
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Leadership
Daniel Ek
(CEO & Chairman)Founded Spotify in 2006. Previously worked as an executive at Tradera, an auction company that was sold to eBay and was briefly the CEO of uTorrent.
People progressing
Joined as a Conversion Manager in the Growth Team. Promoted three times over seven years to Senior Director - Head of Growth.
Joined as a Customer Advisor. Since then has had the role titles Senior Advisor, Content Associate, Team Coach, and Operations Manager - Primary Support. Hurst is now currently the Business Operations Manager of Music.
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