Staff Data Engineer — Subscriptions User Understanding

28 minutes ago
Lead
Software Development
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

Description

  • Define and drive the long-term data engineering strategy for the Subscriptions User Understanding domain.
  • Design scalable batch and streaming data platforms for analytics, experimentation, machine learning, and subscriber experiences.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Platform teams to deliver durable data solutions.
  • Lead architectural decisions and establish best practices for data quality, governance, observability, reliability, and operational excellence.
  • Design data models and platform architecture that balance performance, cost, maintainability, and growth.
  • Simplify complex systems, reduce technical debt, and improve the developer experience across the data ecosystem.
  • Mentor senior engineers and help shape technical direction through collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience designing, building, and operating large-scale cloud-native data platforms.
  • Deep experience building reliable distributed data pipelines using Scio, BigQuery, Dataflow, GCS, SQL, Python, or similar cloud-native tools.
  • Strong understanding of modern data modeling, metadata management, governance, and data quality practices.
  • Ability to balance immediate business needs with long-term architectural sustainability.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills to influence technical direction without formal authority.
  • Experience communicating effectively with engineers, product managers, data scientists, analysts, and senior leadership.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and coaching technical teams.
  • Experience working on broad, cross-cutting engineering challenges and aligning teams around a shared technical vision.
  • Must be able to work within the EMEA region where Spotify has a work location, excluding France due to on-call restrictions.
  • Preferred: experience in platforms that support analytics, experimentation, machine learning, or subscriber growth.

Benefits

  • Flexible work location within the EMEA region.
  • Ability to work where you work best.
  • Inclusive, accessible recruitment process with reasonable accommodations available.
  • Opportunity to work on a platform impacting Spotify’s long-term growth and business success.
  • Equal opportunity workplace.

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