Senior Data Engineer - Music

Spotify

full-time

Posted on: 9/5/2025

Location: New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $125,561 - $179,374 per year

Senior

CassandraDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformHadoopJavaScala

About the role

Architect, build and scale batch data pipelines on Scio and GCP
Collaborate and advise on backend services
Work with Product and Design to define and develop important metrics for artists, labels, and marketing teams
Prioritize and address technical debt for stability, cost efficiency, and timely delivery
Drive optimization, testing, and tooling to improve data quality
Collaborate with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and specialists
Work in agile teams to experiment, iterate and deliver new product objectives and enhance tooling for squads within the product area

Worked with large-scale heterogeneous data, preferably with distributed systems such as Hadoop, BigTable, or Cassandra
Ability to write distributed data pipelines in Java or Scala
Knowledgeable about data modeling, data access, and data storage techniques
Advocate for agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, blameless incident response, and responsible experimentation
Understand the value of collaboration and coordination across teams
Committed to mentorship and constructive accountability