Remote Staff Data Engineer — Scale Data for 1B Users

Spotify; Settle; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify is building the Subscriptions User Understanding data platform to understand conversion, retention, engagement, and subscriber health for hundreds of millions of Premium subscribers.

We are seeking a Staff Data Engineer to shape the data ecosystem strategy, guide multiple squads, and scale systems for the future. You will mentor engineers and help drive a culture of thoughtful engineering and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating large-scale cloud-native data platforms.
• Ability to drive data engineering strategy across multiple squads.
• Strong collaboration with product, engineering, data science, and analytics teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive long-term data engineering strategy for the domain.
• Design scalable batch and streaming data platforms for analytics and ML.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to translate business challenges into data solutions.
• Lead architectural decisions and establish data quality, governance, and observability standards.
• Design data models and platform architecture to support growth to one billion users.
• Mentor engineers and promote thoughtful engineering and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Cloud data engineering

BigQuery

Python

Dataflow

SQL

Tools

GCS

BigQuery

Dataflow

Scio

Job description

Spotify is building the Subscriptions User Understanding data platform to understand conversion, retention, engagement, and subscriber health for hundreds of millions of Premium subscribers.

We are seeking a Staff Data Engineer to shape the data ecosystem strategy, guide multiple squads, and scale systems for the future. You will mentor engineers and help drive a culture of thoughtful engineering and continuous improvement.