Environmental Engineer

Spotify; Tacoma (WA); On-site; USD 64,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid sabbaticals

Mentoring program

Flexible hours

Job summary

Spotify in Tacoma, WA is seeking an Environmental Engineer to own a practical tech stack with solid foundations and a few challenges. The role emphasizes ownership of delivery, full-time hours, and a 1-year commitment.

You will build internal tooling to boost developer productivity, develop and maintain RESTful APIs, review PRs, and help keep CI pipelines fast and reliable across MongoDB and Azure components.

Qualifications

• A keen eye for quality and consistency in output.
• Hands-on command of PostgreSQL; strong interpersonal skills.
• Diplomacy to align stakeholders who don’t yet agree.
• Storytelling instincts that turn data into a decision.
• Clear thinking under Tacoma, WA deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity.
• Spot the values-led PostgreSQL anti-pattern in review before it spreads through Spotify.
• Own the deeply collaborative edge cases in Spotify's GitLab CI billing nobody else wants to touch.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs powering core Spotify products.
• Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team.
• Turn Spotify's Interpersonal Skills on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something.
• Keep Spotify's MongoDB CI under ten minutes so Tacoma, WA engineers stay in flow.
• Carry the Microsoft Azure platform work that makes Spotify's next WA expansion boring.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Interpersonal Skills

Stakeholder Alignment

Communication

Data storytelling

Job description

The Environmental Engineer we're hiring will inherit a technology codebase with good bones and a few skeletons; Spotify is honest about both. What anchors this Tacoma job is ownership; the $64,000 - $96,000, the full-time hours, the 1-year ask all hang off that.

Key Responsibilities

• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
• Spot the values-led PostgreSQL anti-pattern in review before it spreads through Spotify
• Own the deeply collaborative edge cases in Spotify's GitLab CI billing nobody else wants to touch
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs powering core Spotify products
• Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team
• Turn Spotify's Interpersonal Skills on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something
• Keep Spotify's MongoDB CI under ten minutes so Tacoma, WA engineers stay in flow
• Carry the Microsoft Azure platform work that makes Spotify's next WA expansion boring

What You'll Bring

• A keen eye for quality and consistency in your output
• Hands-on command of PostgreSQL, with Interpersonal Skills as a close second
• The diplomacy to align stakeholders who don't agree yet
• Storytelling instincts that turn data into a decision
• Clear thinking under the kind of pressure Tacoma, WA deadlines bring

Our detail-focused approach to technology has made Spotify a go-to choice for companies throughout WA. Diverse perspectives make our technology work sharper, and we deliberately seek them out.

We value work-life balance, so expect $64,000 - $96,000, flexible hours, paid sabbaticals, and a supportive mentoring program.