New York, NY, United States
June 15, 2022
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Data, Research & Insights
Core Infrastructure’s goal is to provide world-class cloud-native infrastructure to Spotify’s engineers. As a data engineer, you’ll collaborate closely with teams of skilled Engineers, Data Scientists, User Researchers, and Product Managers to instrument and collect data about our backend infrastructure ecosystem. This data will help us understand and measure the impact of engineering investments and drive product decisions to unlock and improve Spotify’s developer productivity.
Location
New York or Remote Americas
Job type
Permanent
Who You Are
- You have 5+ years proven professional experience in data engineering.
- Work with high-volume heterogeneous data, preferably with distributed systems such as Hadoop, Bigtable, and Cassandra.
- Are knowledgeable about data modeling, data access, and data storage techniques are able to leverage these skills to make architectural decisions based on product opportunities.
- Know how to write distributed, high-volume services in Java or Scala.
- Have a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms.
- You care about agile software processes and iterative delivery, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation.
- Understand the value of collaboration within teams.
- You are passionate about working with product teams to promote better outcomes for our climate and our planet.
- You are a communicative person who values building positive relationships with co-workers and partner teams, and enjoys mentoring and teaching others.
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.
- Use best practices in continuous integration and delivery.
- Help drive optimization, testing, and tooling to improve data quality.
- Collaborate with other Product Managers, Data Scientists, Software Engineers and stakeholders, taking learning and leadership opportunities that will arise every single day.
- Work in multi-functional agile teams to continuously experiment, iterate and deliver on new product objectives.
Where You'll Be
- We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
- Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
- Working hours. We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration and ask that all be located in that time zone.
- Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.
Our global benefits
Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.
Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.
Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents.
All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.
Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.
Spotify On Tour, join your colleagues on trips to industry festivals and events.
Learn about life at Spotify
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 with a community of more than 381 million users.
Global COVID and Vaccination Disclosure
Spotify is committed to safety and well-being of our employees, vendors and clients. We are following regional guidelines mandating vaccination and testing requirements, including those requiring vaccinations and testing for in-person roles and event attendance. For the US, we have mandated that all employees and contractors be fully vaccinated in order to work in our offices and externally with any third-parties. For all other locations, we strongly encourage our employees to get vaccinated and also follow local COVID and safety protocols.
This role is not eligible for hire in Colorado, USA.
