Remote Staff Data Engineer - Scalable Data Platform Leader

Spotify; Witham; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to define the long-term direction of its data ecosystem for the Subscriptions User Understanding domain. You will design scalable data platforms and lead architecture across multiple squads, partnering with product and engineering teams to translate complex problems into durable, scalable data solutions.

You will mentor engineers, drive data quality and governance, and influence technical direction while supporting the goal of one billion users and $100B

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating large-scale cloud-native data platforms.
• Strong skills in data modeling, governance, quality, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term data engineering strategy for the Subscriptions User Understanding domain.
• Design scalable batch and streaming data platforms powering analytics, experimentation, ML, and subscriber experiences.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Platform teams to create durable data solutions.

Skills

Distributed data pipelines

Cloud-native architectures

Python

SQL

Data modeling

Governance

Tools

BigQuery

Dataflow

GCS

Scio

Job description

Spotify is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to define the long-term direction of its data ecosystem for the Subscriptions User Understanding domain. You will design scalable data platforms and lead architecture across multiple squads, partnering with product and engineering teams to translate complex problems into durable, scalable data solutions.

You will mentor engineers, drive data quality and governance, and influence technical direction while supporting the goal of one billion users and $100B