Engineering Manager, Data Platform – Lead Scale & Growth

Spotify; United States; Hybrid; USD 161,000 - 228,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible/hybrid work options

Job summary

Spotify is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of six engineers across Europe, setting technical direction for our event delivery and privacy infrastructure while investing deeply in engineers’ growth.

You will own delivery, partner with product, and drive architecture for data systems at scale, fostering ownership and psychological safety while hiring and onboarding new teammates.

Qualifications

• Experience managing teams of senior engineers and understanding people leadership as the primary craft.
• Track record of meaningful development conversations to grow engineers into new roles.
• Comfort with distributed data systems and event-driven architectures at scale.
• Strong communication and accountability for outcomes across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of six engineers with a focus on coaching and career development.
• Own delivery with clear priorities, healthy execution, and measurable outcomes.
• Partner with product to shape the roadmap for event delivery and privacy infrastructure.
• Set technical strategy and architecture for systems at scale and across the company.
• Foster ownership, psychological safety, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate across Data Platform and wider engineering to align goals and dependencies.
• Oversee on-call health, reliability, and operations; participate in hiring and onboarding.

Skills

Team leadership

People development

Mentoring engineers

Stakeholder collaboration

Distributed data systems

Job description

Spotify is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of six engineers across Europe, setting technical direction for our event delivery and privacy infrastructure while investing deeply in engineers’ growth.

You will own delivery, partner with product, and drive architecture for data systems at scale, fostering ownership and psychological safety while hiring and onboarding new teammates.