Data Infrastructure Engineer, Spotify

Data Platform

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GCP

Scala

Java

Apollo

Junior, Mid and Senior level

London

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Commercial music streaming service

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Commercial music streaming service

1001+ employees

B2CMusicEntertainmentDigital MediaSaaSMobile

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

GCP

Scala

Java

Apollo

Junior, Mid and Senior level

London

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2CMusicEntertainmentDigital MediaSaaSMobile

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

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You have experience working with backend and data engineering in Java and Scala and have an understanding of that problem space and tooling ecosystem
You are curious about solving technical challenges and operating business-critical, huge scale distributed systems and cloud solutions
You have a good understanding of quality, system design, data structures, and algorithms
You appreciate agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation
You use standard methodologies in continuous integration and delivery
You work well independently and collaboratively, and are open to giving and receiving feedback in order to learn as an individual and as a team

What the job involves

We are looking for a Data Infrastructure Engineer to join our team in the Data Collection Product Area. We develop the heart of Spotify’s Event Delivery infrastructure, enabling hundreds of other teams to seamlessly collect more than a Trillion events per day and consume this data to empower Spotify's existing products as well as innovation of new products
We are heavy users of Google Cloud Pub/Sub, GKE, Dataflow and many other GCP products and work closely with Google to improve their product offering. We also rely on internal backend and data platform products, built by other squads at Spotify
Work on our infrastructure together with the squad, making it reliable and efficient while delivering value to data producers and consumers within Spotify
Build large-scale Java and Apollo based backend systems and batch and real-time data pipelines with data processing frameworks like Scio and Apache Beam
Take an active part in the operational responsibilities for our own infrastructure
Work in an autonomous, multi-functional agile team and collaborate with other squads in our product area to continuously iterate and deliver on new product objectives

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

Top investors

23% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4)

Trustpilot (1.6)

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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