Remote Staff Data Engineer, Subscriptions Platform

Spotify; Kirby Sigston; Remote; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify is seeking a Staff Data Engineer for the Subscriptions User Understanding domain to shape the long-term data strategy and scale our data ecosystem for 200M+ Premium subscribers.

You will design scalable data platforms, lead architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while partnering with product, engineering, data science, analytics and platform teams to deliver durable data solutions across analytics, experimentation, and machine learning.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating large-scale cloud-native data platforms.
• Deep experience building reliable distributed data pipelines with modern tooling.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, governance, and data quality practices.

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 pipelines

BigQuery

Python

SQL

Data modeling

Mentoring engineers

Tools

BigQuery

Dataflow

Scio

GCS

Job description

Spotify is seeking a Staff Data Engineer for the Subscriptions User Understanding domain to shape the long-term data strategy and scale our data ecosystem for 200M+ Premium subscribers.

You will design scalable data platforms, lead architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while partnering with product, engineering, data science, analytics and platform teams to deliver durable data solutions across analytics, experimentation, and machine learning.