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Remote Senior Data Engineer

at Spotify

Posted 6 hours ago 2 applied

Description:

  • We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Advertising Product & Technology organization.
  • The teams are responsible for scaling Spotify's Free Product and Podcast Monetization Mission.
  • You will work directly on product features, advertiser publishing tools, and insights and reporting functionalities.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential to ideate, develop, and own complex technical solutions on podcast and ad services technology platforms.
  • The role involves maintaining and enhancing Spotify’s reporting pipelines to ensure they remain business-critical.
  • You will build large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines for efficient collection, processing, and storage of measurement-related data.
  • Close collaboration with stakeholders is required to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
  • Writing scalable, testable, maintainable, and high-quality code is a key responsibility.
  • You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders, embracing learning and leadership opportunities daily.
  • Monitoring daily execution, diagnosing issues, and ensuring SLAs are met by maintaining and fixing business-critical pipelines is part of the role.
  • You will write distributed, high-volume services and know how to deploy and keep them running in production.

Requirements:

  • Proven experience working with high-volume, heterogeneous data, ideally within distributed systems such as Hadoop, BigTable, Cassandra, GCP, AWS, or Azure is required.
  • Familiarity with data processing frameworks like Scio, GCP Dataflow, AWS EMR, and Apache Beam is necessary.
  • Strong programming skills in Java or Scala are essential for this position.
  • A commitment to agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation is expected.
  • Hands-on experience with orchestration tools like Airflow or similar is required.
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills are necessary for success in this role.

Benefits:

  • The United States base range for this position is $160,091- $228,702 plus equity.
  • Benefits include health insurance and a six-month paid parental leave.
  • A 401(k) retirement plan is offered as part of the benefits package.
  • Employees receive a monthly meal allowance and 23 paid days off.
  • There are also 13 paid flexible holidays and paid sick leave available.
  • Spotify is committed to inclusivity and provides reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process.