Data Engineer, Spotify

$125.6-179.4k

Salary is applicable to US rates only and may vary on further locations; + Equity

SQL

AWS

GCP

Python

Scala

Java

Postgres

Airflow

Cassandra

Hadoop

MySQL

Azure

Pandas

Data Flow

SpringBoot

DynamoDB

Junior, Mid and Senior level

New York

Remote from Canada, US

More information about location

Commercial music streaming service

Job no longer available

Commercial music streaming service

1001+ employees

B2CMusicEntertainmentDigital MediaSaaSMobile

Job no longer available

$125.6-179.4k

Salary is applicable to US rates only and may vary on further locations; + Equity

SQL

AWS

GCP

Python

Scala

Java

Postgres

Airflow

Cassandra

Hadoop

MySQL

Azure

Pandas

Data Flow

SpringBoot

DynamoDB

Junior, Mid and Senior level

New York

Remote from Canada, US

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

Experience in data engineering with high-volume, heterogeneous data, ideally within distributed systems such as Hadoop, BigTable, Cassandra, GCP, AWS, or Azure
Familiarity with data processing frameworks like Scio, GCP Dataflow, AWS EMR, and Apache Beam
Familiarity with API design, microservice architecture, and frameworks like Spring Boot or gRPC
Programming skills in Java or Scala, and for analytics and data extraction (SQL, Python, Pandas, R)
Commitment to agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation
Hands-on experience with orchestration tools like Airflow or similar
Experience with database systems, both relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational (e.g., Cassandra, DynamoDB)
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

What the job involves

The Ads reporting team is dedicated to creating scalable, reliable data and backend systems that power our advertising ecosystem. Our mission is to enable seamless delivery of personalized, impactful ads while maintaining an exceptional user experience. As part of our team, you will play a key role in shaping and realizing our vision to enhance the advertising experience for our clients and establish Spotify as a market leader in advertising
We are seeking engineers who are passionate about designing, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable systems. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to build data services and APIs that support our advertising platform, enabling innovative features and analytics
Positioned at the heart of our backend operations, you will assist product teams in driving high performance, reliability, and scalability across our systems. Our team culture emphasizes creative problem-solving, rapid iteration, execution, and collaboration
Maintain and enhance Spotify’s reporting pipelines, ensuring they remain business-critical
Build large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines to efficiently collect, process, and store reporting-related data
Make enhancements to data models and ETL code to improve pipeline efficiency and data quality
Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services and APIs to power Spotify’s advertising platform
Work closely with stakeholders to understand and translate business requirements into technical solutions
Write scalable, testable, maintainable, and high-quality code
Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders, embracing learning and leadership opportunities daily
Monitor daily execution, diagnose issues, and ensure SLAs are met by maintaining and fixing business-critical pipelines

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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