Staff Data Engineer, Subscriptions Data Platform (Remote)

Spotify; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify is seeking a Staff Data Engineer for the Subscriptions User Understanding team to shape the data ecosystem and scale our platform for a growing global base of Premium subscribers.

You will partner with product, analytics, and platform teams to design resilient data pipelines and establish best practices that enable data-driven decision making across analytics, ML, and product development. Join us to drive high-impact, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating cloud-native data platforms.
• Experience building reliable distributed data pipelines.
• Ability to balance immediate business needs with long-term architecture.

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

Mentor engineers

Stakeholder communication

Data engineering strategy

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Scio

BigQuery

Dataflow

GCS

SQL

Python

Job description

Spotify is seeking a Staff Data Engineer for the Subscriptions User Understanding team to shape the data ecosystem and scale our platform for a growing global base of Premium subscribers.

You will partner with product, analytics, and platform teams to design resilient data pipelines and establish best practices that enable data-driven decision making across analytics, ML, and product development. Join us to drive high-impact, scalable solutions.