Senior Data/Backend Engineer

Delivering the best Spotify experience possible. To as many people as possible. In as many moments as possible. That’s what the Experience team is all about. We use our deep understanding of consumer expectations to enrich the lives of millions of our users all over the world, bringing the music and audio they love to the devices, apps and platforms they use every day. Know what our users want? Join us and help Spotify give it to them. 
Spotify is looking to hire someone with both data and backend engineering experience to join our Content Platform organization within the Experience Mission. You will build derived data solutions and distributed services to bring music and digital media experiences to our 500M+ active users and millions of artists. You will take on complex data and distributed systems problems using some of the most diverse datasets available. Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music!

What you'll do

• Build large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines with data processing frameworks like Scalding, Scio, Storm, Spark, and the Google Cloud Platform
• Design, develop, and deploy backend services in Java and Scala with a focus on high availability, robustness, and monitoring
• Leverage best practices in continuous integration and delivery
• Help drive optimization, testing, and tooling to improve data and systems quality
• Work in cross-functional agile teams to continuously experiment, iterate, and deliver on new product objectives
• Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team
• Work in an environment that supports your individual growth by providing you with ambitious tasks to solve and the time needed to acquire new skills

Who you are

• You have professional experience working in a product-driven environment
• You are able to work with high-volume heterogeneous data, preferably with distributed systems such as Hadoop, BigTable, and Cassandra
• You know how to write distributed, high-volume services in programming languages such as Java and Scala
• You have an understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
• You are knowledgeable about data modeling, data access, and data storage techniques
• You have worked deploying and operating services in a cloud environment such as GCP or AWS
• You enjoy close collaboration with web engineers and care about the software architecture across the backend, frontend and the APIs that glue them together
• You care about agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation

Where you'll be

• We’ve introduced Work From Anywhere to give you more options! While we will ask you to pop into the office from time to time, we are giving you the flexibility to work from home should you choose to do so. Working hours? We operate within the New York zone for collaboration

The United States base range for this position is 156,275 to 223,250 USD, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.