Spotify

Data Engineer II – Music

Spotify

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: New YorkUnited 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