Data Engineer, Spotify
Spotify Rights Cente, Music
$133-190k
Plus equity
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Commercial music streaming service
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Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$133-190k
Plus equity
More information about location
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
- You have strong SQL skills and deep experience with data modeling and warehouse design
- You have experience building and operating batch data pipelines at scale using tools such as Scio, Apache Beam, Spark, or similar frameworks
- You are comfortable working with modern cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar technologies
- You have experience with analytics engineering tools like dbt and understand layered data modeling approaches (staging, transformation, reporting)
- You have worked with workflow orchestration platforms such as Flyte, Airflow, or similar systems
- You can write production-quality code in languages such as Scala, Python, or Java
- You understand data quality practices and have built monitoring and alerting systems for pipeline reliability
- You take ownership of solutions end-to-end, from understanding business questions to deploying and validating data pipelines
- You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- You enjoy learning new domains and tackling complex data challenges such as rights management, content matching, and multi-territory licensing
What the job involves
- The Rights Systems team builds and operates Spotify Rights Center (SRC) — Spotify’s rights management platform that enables Spotify and its partners to identify, manage, and enforce music licensing rights across all the content available on the platform
- Comparable in scope to YouTube’s Content ID, SRC is purpose-built for Spotify’s ecosystem and underpins the company’s strategy for video and emerging content types. Over the past year, the team has taken SRC from concept to a fully operational production platform, delivering automated content scanning, policy management, enforcement pipelines, appeals workflows, manual claims, and analytics capabilities
- The team has grown from a single squad to three squads (~30 bandmates) and continues to scale as a strategic investment area for Spotify over the next several years
- Build and maintain the data pipelines and analytics infrastructure that power Spotify’s rights management platform
- Own batch and streaming pipelines that generate core datasets used by Spotify Rights Center, including processing content segments, joining rights metadata, and producing match data that drives the product
- Develop and evolve analytics models that transform pipeline and service data into reporting for system reliability, rightsholder adoption, and business ROI
- Partner closely with product managers, backend engineers, and insights teams to define metrics, build dashboards, and generate data that informs strategic decisions around platform expansion
- Maintain data export pipelines connecting backend services and the data warehouse to ensure downstream consumers receive timely and accurate data
- Implement strong data quality practices, including validation tests, alerts, and monitoring to ensure reliable pipeline outputs
- Contribute to technical solutions that support licensing, financial engineering, and content platform stakeholders
- Participate in product ideation with engineers, researchers, product managers, and domain experts across the team
- Contribute to a collaborative engineering culture and support continuous learning through hack days, reading groups, and internal training
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
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 HQ
Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län
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.
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