Remote Staff Data Engineer - Scalable Data Platform Leader

Spotify; Redhill; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify is seeking a Staff Data Engineer for the Subscriptions User Understanding team to shape long-term data platform strategy and scale data systems for hundreds of millions of Premium subscribers worldwide.

You will design batch and streaming platforms, drive data quality and governance, and partner with product, analytics, and platform teams to deliver durable data solutions at scale.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating large-scale cloud-native data platforms.
• Strong track record leading data engineering domains and setting long-term strategy.
• Excellent collaboration with product, data science, analytics, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term data engineering strategy for the Subscriptions User Understanding domain, identifying opportunities that improve scalability, reliability, and business impact.
• Design scalable batch and streaming data platforms that power analytics, experimentation, machine learning, and subscriber experiences.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Platform teams to turn complex business challenges into durable, well-designed data solutions.
• Lead architectural decisions and establish engineering best practices for data quality, governance, observability, reliability, and operational excellence across multiple squads.
• Design data models and platform architecture that support sustainable growth toward one billion users while balancing performance, cost, and maintainability.
• Simplify complex systems, reduce technical debt, and improve the developer experience across the broader data ecosystem.
• Mentor senior engineers, influence technical direction through collaboration, and help foster a culture of thoughtful engineering, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Cloud-native data platforms

Data engineering

Architectural design

Tools

Scio

BigQuery

Dataflow

GCS

SQL

Python

Job description

Spotify is seeking a Staff Data Engineer for the Subscriptions User Understanding team to shape long-term data platform strategy and scale data systems for hundreds of millions of Premium subscribers worldwide.

You will design batch and streaming platforms, drive data quality and governance, and partner with product, analytics, and platform teams to deliver durable data solutions at scale.