
Data Engineer II – Music
Spotify
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $133,000 - $190,000 per year
About the role
- Build and maintain the data pipelines and analytics infrastructure that power Spotify’s rights management platform
- Own batch and streaming pipelines that generate core datasets used by Spotify Rights Center, including processing content segments, joining rights metadata, and producing match data that drives the product
- Develop and evolve analytics models that transform pipeline and service data into reporting for system reliability, rightsholder adoption, and business ROI
- Partner closely with product managers, backend engineers, and insights teams to define metrics, build dashboards, and generate data that informs strategic decisions around platform expansion
- Maintain data export pipelines connecting backend services and the data warehouse to ensure downstream consumers receive timely and accurate data
- Implement strong data quality practices, including validation tests, alerts, and monitoring to ensure reliable pipeline outputs
- Contribute to technical solutions that support licensing, financial engineering, and content platform stakeholders
- Participate in product ideation with engineers, researchers, product managers, and domain experts across the team
- Contribute to a collaborative engineering culture and support continuous learning through hack days, reading groups, and internal training
Requirements
- strong SQL skills and deep experience with data modeling and warehouse design
- experience building and operating batch data pipelines at scale using tools such as Scio, Apache Beam, Spark, or similar frameworks
- comfortable working with modern cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar technologies
- experience with analytics engineering tools like dbt and understand layered data modeling approaches (staging, transformation, reporting)
- worked with workflow orchestration platforms such as Flyte, Airflow, or similar systems
- can write production-quality code in languages such as Scala, Python, or Java
- understand data quality practices and have built monitoring and alerting systems for pipeline reliability
- take ownership of solutions end-to-end, from understanding business questions to deploying and validating data pipelines
- communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- enjoy learning new domains and tackling complex data challenges such as rights management, content matching, and multi-territory licensing
Benefits
- health insurance
- six-month paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- monthly meal allowance
- 23 paid days off
- paid flexible holidays
- paid sick leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLdata modelingwarehouse designbatch data pipelinesApache BeamSparkBigQuerySnowflakedbtScala
Soft Skills
communicationownershipcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilitycontinuous learningstrategic thinkingtechnical understandingstakeholder engagementdata quality practices