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Spotify

Backend Engineer - Data Platform

Spotify
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about 4 hours ago
London, United Kingdom
Mid Level / Senior
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Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to build and operate scalable data processing infrastructure.
  • Design and develop tools to improve developer productivity and reduce overhead in data pipelines.
  • Contribute to platform reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across large-scale data systems.
  • Partner with data experts to evolve best practices, standards, and tooling.
  • Support the adoption and migration of data pipelines onto new platform capabilities.
  • Help shape the future of Spotify’s data ecosystem through continuous improvement and experimentation.

Requirements

  • Experience building backend systems using Java.
  • Familiarity with platform engineering concepts and data-intensive environments.
  • Comfortable working with large-scale data using SQL and analytics platforms like BigQuery.
  • Experience with distributed data processing frameworks such as Spark, Flink, or Beam.
  • Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, containerized applications, and DevOps practices.
  • Working knowledge of Kubernetes and its core concepts.
  • Experience building or maintaining data pipelines using Scala and/or Python.
  • Commitment to code quality, testing, and delivering reliable systems.
  • Enjoyment of collaborative environments and navigating open-ended problems.
  • Curiosity and motivation to use data to inform decisions.

Benefits

  • Flexibility to work from home with some in-person meetings.
  • Inclusive workplace culture that values diverse perspectives.

Tech Stack

Apache BeamApache FlinkApache SparkGoogle BigQueryJavaKubernetesPythonScalaSQL

Categories

BackendData EngineeringDevOps