Remote Staff Data Platform Engineer — Subscriptions

Spotify; Lowestoft; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 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 strategy, design scalable data pipelines, and partner with product, engineering, and analytics teams to deliver robust solutions for subscriber insights.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural excellence, and help scale systems toward one billion users while balancing performance and cost in a cloud-native environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, building and operating large-scale cloud-native data platforms.
• Proven ability to lead architectural decisions and raise engineering standards across squads.
• Strong collaboration with product, analytics, data science, and platform teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive long-term data engineering strategy for the domain.
• Design scalable batch and streaming data platforms for analytics, experimentation and ML.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to translate business challenges into durable data solutions.
• Lead architectural decisions and establish data quality, governance and observability practices.
• Design data models and platform architectures to support growth toward one billion users.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Data pipelines

Cross-team collaboration

Mentoring engineers

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 strategy, design scalable data pipelines, and partner with product, engineering, and analytics teams to deliver robust solutions for subscriber insights.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural excellence, and help scale systems toward one billion users while balancing performance and cost in a cloud-native environment.