Senior Data Engineer, Spotify
Cost Platform
Commercial music streaming service
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Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
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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
- A senior data engineer with a strong track record of owning and operating production-critical data systems end to end
- Hold a degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent proven experience
- Experienced in designing data architectures that scale with both data volume and organizational complexity
- Comfortable leading technical discussions, influencing build decisions, and aligning partners around long-term solutions
- Thrive in environments with evolving requirements, balancing speed of delivery with adaptability and correctness
- Strong communicator who can explain sophisticated technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Familiar with financial, billing, or usage data, and able to connect infrastructure metrics to real business and sustainability impact
- Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms (GCP preferred)
- Highly proficient with Python, SQL, DBT, and modern orchestration frameworks and experienced with data quality and observability tooling
- Experience with at least one data processing framework such as Spark, Flink, or Dataflow
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join the Cost Engineering Product Area, whose mission is to drive sustainability through cost and climate intelligence, amplifying Spotify's ability to deliver creativity to the world
- Cost Engineering is responsible for optimizing the cost and carbon footprint of our infrastructure and software
- Our team operates at the intersection of technology, product, procurement, and finance, making it one of the most
- As a Data Engineer in Cost Engineering, you’ll influence decisions that build Spotify’s technology and financial future
- By crafting and implementing the data systems that power our cost practices, you’ll provide the foundations that enable us to optimize its cost and carbon footprint, enabling Spotify to grow sustainably while reducing our climate impact
- Be responsible for the design, implementation, and evolution of scalable, reliable data infrastructure that underpins Spotify’s cost and carbon intelligence
- Own end-to-end data pipelines for cloud cost, usage, and emissions data: spanning ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving layers
- Partner deeply with Data Scientists, Engineering, Finance, and Procurement to translate sophisticated analytical and business needs into robust data architectures
- Set technical direction and standards for data modeling, orchestration, testing, and observability within the Cost Engineering domain
- Build and maintain curated, analytics-ready datasets that power executive reporting, forecasting, and optimization initiatives
- Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and timeliness for high-stakes cost and emissions reporting used to guide strategic infrastructure investments
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve the scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency of the data platform itself
- Mentor other engineers and act as a technical sounding board, raising the overall bar for data engineering perfection on the team
- Work across all Missions at Spotify to embed cost and climate awareness into decision-making, with a focus on accurate attribution of spend and carbon impact
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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