Senior Data Engineer, Spotify
Commercial music streaming service
Open for applications
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
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 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 have experience with one or more higher-level Python or Java based data processing frameworks such as Beam, Dataflow, Crunch, Scalding, Storm, Spark, Flink etc. You have strong python programming abilities
- Experience using pre-trained ML models is a plus
- You might have worked with Docker as well as Luigi, Airflow, or similar tools
- You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code
- You have experience managing data retention policies
- 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
- The Speak team is Spotifies in-house text-to-speech (TTS) team, supporting products like DJ, AI Voice Translation, as well as the development of exciting new unreleased products. We focus on building world class speech technologies that can power the next generation of personalized generative voice products at scale
- Build large-scale speech and audio data pipelines using frameworks like Google Cloud Platform and Apache Beam
- Work on machine learning projects powering new generatie AI experiences and helping to build state-of-the-art text-to-speech models
- Learn and contribute to the teams understanding of best practicies and techniques for building data pipelines for large scale generative models, including cleaning, filtering, classifying and labelling
- Collaborate with other engineers, researchers, product managers and stakeholders, taking on learning and leadership opportunities that arise
- Deliver scalable, testable, maintainable, and high-quality code. Share knowledge, promote standard methodologies, making your team the best version of itself through mentorship and constructive accountability
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.
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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
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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