Staff Data Engineer - Scalable Cloud Platform (Remote)

Spotify; Stamford; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to shape the long-term data platform strategy for the Subscriptions User Understanding domain. You will design scalable batch and streaming platforms, partner across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Platform teams, and drive data quality, governance, and reliability across multiple squads.

You will mentor senior engineers, influence technical direction, and help create a culture of thoughtful engineering while supporting Spotify's

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating large-scale cloud-native data platforms.
• Ability to lead architecture decisions across multiple squads.
• Strong collaboration with product, analytics, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term data engineering strategy for the Subscriptions User Understanding domain.
• Design scalable batch and streaming data platforms for analytics and ML.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Platform teams to solve complex business challenges.
• Lead engineering best practices for data quality, governance, and observability across squads.
• Design data models and platform architecture to scale toward one billion users.

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud-native

Cross-team leadership

Communication

Tools

Scio

BigQuery

Dataflow

GCS

SQL

Python

Job description

Spotify is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to shape the long-term data platform strategy for the Subscriptions User Understanding domain. You will design scalable batch and streaming platforms, partner across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Platform teams, and drive data quality, governance, and reliability across multiple squads.

You will mentor senior engineers, influence technical direction, and help create a culture of thoughtful engineering while supporting Spotify's