Spotify

Data Engineer, Ads Product – Tech

Spotify

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: New YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $132,949 - $189,927 per year

About the role

  • 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

Requirements

  • 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
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • Six month paid parental leave
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Monthly meal allowance
  • 23 paid days off
  • 13 paid flexible holidays
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Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringETLAPI designmicroservice architectureJavaScalaSQLPythonPandasR
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationleadershipstakeholder engagementagile processesdata-driven developmentreliabilityresponsible experimentation