Data Engineer, Spotify
User Platform
Commercial music streaming service
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Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
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 a strong foundation in software engineering and are proficient in Python, Java, and SQL, which are essential for this role. Experience with Scala and familiarity with cloud solutions is a plus
- You have experience with JVM-based data processing frameworks such as Beam, Spark, and Flink. You understand their APIs and can debug their internals
- You care deeply about bringing software alive in an agile way, reliability, and responsible experimentation as well as being a strong advocate for engineering best practices such as continuous integration and delivery
- You have a proven understanding of data modelling, data access, and data storage, caching, replication, and optimisation techniques
- You understand the value of collaboration within teams. You are comfortable with asynchronous communication, being able to work independently while always sharing context with your team members
- Experience with Backend Engineering is a plus
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes (GKE) is a plus
What the job involves
- We are seeking a dedicated and engaged Data Engineer to join User Platform, a studio within Platform Mission at Spotify
- Our team plays a pivotal role in generating trusted user data—some of the most critical metrics at Spotify—used for strategic decision-making, supporting global growth initiatives, and essential internal and external reporting
- We want to enable anyone at Spotify to understand users’ identity and access patterns effectively, to form better experiences within user acquisition and retention, strengthen account security as well as improve the global Spotify product decision making
- Achieving this requires a significant investment in enhancing our IAM data health and structure
- Explore new ways of producing, processing, and analyzing data in order to unlock insights into both our users and our product features
- Contribute to data modeling efforts with a data-as-a-product approach, expanding our current metrics to meet evolving business requirements
- Design, develop, and test robust data pipelines capable of processing billions of data points, using ground breaking data processing frameworks, technologies, and platforms
- Enhance data quality through testing, tooling, and continuous performance evaluation
- Work with other software engineers, data scientists, and decision-makers, such as engineering and product managers, to build solutions and gain novel insights
- Act as the bridge between our Engineering and Insights team and work on data cataloging / management and build/maintain crucial data pipelines
Salary benchmarks
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 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
Articles
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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