Remote Staff Data Engineer - Subscriptions Platform

Spotify; Herne Bay; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify is seeking a Staff Data Engineer for the Subscriptions User Understanding domain. You will shape the long-term data platform, design scalable batch and streaming pipelines, and partner with product, analytics, and platform teams to deliver durable data solutions at scale.

You will mentor senior engineers and guide architectural decisions while balancing performance, cost, and maintainability as Spotify scales to one billion users.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in designing and operating cloud-native data platforms.
• Proven ability to build reliable distributed data pipelines at scale.
• Strong communication and collaboration across product, engineering, and data 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 enforce data quality, governance, and observability.
• Create data models and architectures for scalable user growth and cost efficiency.
• Reduce technical debt and improve developer experience across the data ecosystem.
• Mentor engineers and shape engineering culture with thoughtful guidance.

Skills

Cloud data platforms

Data pipelines

Technical leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Communication

Tools

Scio

BigQuery

Dataflow

GCS

SQL

Python

Job description

Spotify is seeking a Staff Data Engineer for the Subscriptions User Understanding domain. You will shape the long-term data platform, design scalable batch and streaming pipelines, and partner with product, analytics, and platform teams to deliver durable data solutions at scale.

You will mentor senior engineers and guide architectural decisions while balancing performance, cost, and maintainability as Spotify scales to one billion users.