Spotify

Senior Backend Engineer

Spotify

full-time

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Location: New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $160,091 - $228,702 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScala

About the role

  • Design, develop and maintain robust, scalable, low latency services using Java, Scala, GCP services like GKE, PubSub, Bigtable, and BigQuery and our orchestration stack
  • Build and optimize high-throughput systems for critical projects such as Signal Matching, 1P/2P data ingestion, and our Demand-Side Platform integrations (ID5, EUID, LiveRamp and more)
  • Collaborate closely with Data engineers, Machine Learning engineers, and other teams, to enhance probabilistic identity models and deliver roadmap
  • Provide strong technical leadership over architecture and development of key, privacy-centric features, such as enhancing Consent Capabilities and building new tools to manage user data
  • Champion scalability, testability, maintainability, reliability and high-quality code, ensuring adherence to Spotify’s Golden Path technologies
  • Work in a T-shaped environment, collaborating with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders; lead on architecture and design decisions and execute on plans, pair-programming and debugging with teammates

Requirements

  • Proven experience working with distributed, high-volume production services, and strong programming skills in Java
  • Commitment to agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation
  • Strong interest in, and ideally some experience with, data engineering and building data processing workflows and pipelines
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to navigate complex technical and product requirements
  • Experience designing, developing and maintaining robust, scalable, low latency services using Java, Scala, GCP services like GKE, PubSub, Bigtable, and BigQuery and orchestration stacks
  • Experience building and optimizing high-throughput systems for signal matching, 1P/2P data ingestion, and DSP integrations
  • Ability to provide technical leadership over architecture and development of privacy-centric features