Data Engineer, Spotify
Licensing
$100.7-143.9k
+Equity
More information about location
Commercial music streaming service
Job no longer available
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$100.7-143.9k
+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
- Understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
- Experience building backend services
- Familiar with current data engineering practices and are curious about new technologies that help derive insights and value from data
- Value quality and know what it means to ship high quality code
- T-Shaped is a plus. You have experience in data science, front end or data visualization
- You take on loosely defined problems and thrive when working on a team which has autonomy in their day to day decisions
- You have a Bachelors or Masters Degree in a relevant field of studies
What the job involves
- Kelp builds and maintains enterprise data products for Spotify’s industry partners – record labels, audiobooks publishers, etc., providing data that becomes the heartbeat of the audio industry
- As part of the licensing team, we serve an important role in ensuring that Spotify has the content rights needed to launch new products and grow profitably. Join us and you’ll help build the next generation of industry data products
- Scope, build, and improve data pipelines and API infrastructure
- Process terabytes of data from Spotify’s 100s of millions of users and billions of daily audio streams
- Work with data processing frameworks, technologies, and platforms such as Scala, Scio, Java, Flink, and Google Cloud Platform
- Improve data and API quality through testing, tooling and continuously evaluating performance
- Share responsibility for on-call monitoring and incident handling for production systems
- Collaborate with other software engineers, data scientists, and product owners
- Gain deep insight into the mechanics of the music and audiobooks industries
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
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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