Senior Data Engineer - Data Platform
At a glance
Senior Data Engineering role at Spotify. London · no salary stated · we estimate £86,250–£114,500.
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What you'll do
- Build and maintain systems that gather and process user behaviour data at scale
- Create datasets and core data infrastructure alongside product and engineering teams
- Shape data architectures for high volumes and a wide range of internal users
- Improve the dependability, scale and usability of data infrastructure
- Support personalization, recommendations and tools for building and testing features
What you bring
- You have experience as a data engineer and strong backend development skills in Java
- You can work with large datasets using SQL and platforms such as BigQuery
- You have used a JVM data-processing framework such as Flink, Beam or another listed tool
- You bring experience in data modeling and schema design
Who this fits
This role suits a senior data engineer comfortable with open-ended problems, iterative work and collaboration across disciplines. The position is based in London, with some in-person meetings and flexibility to work from home.
From the employer
The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers.
The Data Platform team develops and maintains the infrastructure that supports Spotify’s data ecosystem. Within Data Platform, the Data Collection product area builds infrastructure that makes it easier to collect and consume data at scale. You’ll join a team focused on making user behaviour data seamless and reliable for data teams across Spotify.
What You'll Do
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to build and support critical data infrastructure and datasets.
- Build systems that collect and process user behaviour data at scale.
- Help power Spotify’s personalization and recommendation systems, as well as the tools teams use to build and test new features.
- Design and evolve data architectures that support high data volumes and a broad range of internal users.
- Improve the reliability, scalability, and usability of our data infrastructure.
- Work across disciplines to solve complex data challenges and make an impact across Spotify.
Who You Are
- You are an experienced Data Engineer, and proficient in backend development using Java.
- You are comfortable working with large-scale datasets using SQL and platforms such as BigQuery.
- You have experience with JVM-based data processing frameworks such as Flink, Beam, Dataflow, or Spark.
- You are familiar with DevOps practices, cloud infrastructure, containerized applications, and Kubernetes fundamentals.
- You have experience with data modeling and schema design.
- You care about high-quality code and engineering practices such as continuous delivery and automated testing.
- You value experimentation, iterative development, and collaborative software development practices.
- You are comfortable navigating ambiguity and open-ended problems, using data and sound judgment to make decisions.
Where You'll Be
- This role is based in London
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.
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