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Backend Engineer - Data Infrastructure

2 hours, 2 minutes ago
United States
Full-time
Junior
Backend Engineer
Software Development
ClickHouse Druid GCP Grafana Java Kubernetes Prometheus Snowflake Terraform
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Spotify

Spotify

Spotify is a leading global audio streaming service empowering artists and inspiring fans worldwide with over 70 million tracks. It has 365 million users, including 165 million subscribers, across 178 markets.

Media
Founded 2006
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Description

  • Build, operate, and evolve the data analytics platform, including backend services and the OLAP data store used by analytics teams.
  • Develop internal tooling, libraries, and services that simplify integration with the analytics platform.
  • Work closely with engineers across Spotify to provide OLAP capabilities for dynamic and reliable data visualizations.
  • Diagnose, resolve, and help prevent production issues affecting data infrastructure and analytics services.
  • Advocate for best practices in service design, data modeling, schema evolution, and contract testing.
  • Support reliability, SLOs, and operational excellence for data infrastructure services.
  • Collaborate in an autonomous, cross-functional environment to deliver on new product objectives.
  • Share operational responsibility for the products the team builds and supports.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of relevant experience with distributed datastores and backend services.
  • Proficiency in Java.
  • Interest in learning Kubernetes and Terraform.
  • Understanding of data modeling, dimensional schemas, and analytical query patterns.
  • Experience building internal developer tools, libraries, or shared services for large engineering organizations.
  • Strong ownership mindset focused on service quality, SLOs, and operational excellence.
  • Familiarity with OLAP databases or analytics warehouses such as Druid, ClickHouse, Pinot, BigQuery, or Snowflake.
  • Druid experience is a strong plus.
  • Comfort with metrics-driven development and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, or similar.
  • Strong communication skills, empathy, and the ability to anticipate partner needs.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $125,562 to $179,374 plus equity.
  • Health insurance.
  • Six months of paid parental leave.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Monthly meal allowance.
  • 23 paid days off.
  • 13 paid flexible holidays.
  • Paid sick leave.
  • Flexible hybrid/remote work arrangement with some in-person meetings in New York City.

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