Senior Data Engineer - Advertising

Remote Position

Full-time

Job Description

Our mission on the Advertising Product & Technology team is to build a next generation advertising platform that aligns with our unique value proposition for audio and video. We work to scale the user experience for hundreds of millions of fans and hundreds of thousands of advertisers. This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities for our artists and creators.

Within Spotify’s Advertising mission, the Measurement team is building products right in the heart of our business. We own and operate a suite of products that enable advertisers to understand the efficacy of their advertising spend with Spotify while unlocking new insights into how Spotify can help these advertisers grow their brand on our platform. We are looking for a T-shaped Senior Data Engineer, eager to work on critical data pipelines, infrastructure, and APIs (backend Java services) that power the current and next generation measurement products, ensuring they are reliable, scalable and deliver high-quality insights to our end users.

What You'll Do

Design, develop and maintain robust, scalable batch and streaming pipelines using Scio, GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow, GCS), and our orchestration stack including Flyte and Styx.

Own the development and optimization of high-throughput, low-latency pipelines and APIs for exciting projects across our measurement portfolio – including Brand Lift, Attribution, Signals and much more.

Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other senior engineers to lay out our measurement roadmap, and help build out the next generation of measurement products at Spotify Ads.

Serve as a technical lead and take charge of the architecture and development of key initiatives across our core measurement products, such as the growth of our Brand Lift offering, and the expansion of our Attribution platform.

Champion scalability, testability, maintainability, reliability and high-quality code, ensuring we follow Spotify’s Golden Path technologies.

Work optimally in a T-shaped environment, collaborating with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders, accepting learning and leadership opportunities daily.

Take charge on architecture and design decisions when needed across our API and data stack, while also being comfortable efficiently executing plans, pair-programming and debugging with your teammates and wider partners.

Who You Are

Confirmed experience working with distributed, high-volume production data pipelines and services, and heterogeneous data and tools such as BigQuery and BigTable

Driven by curiosity and a willingness to learn – ideally some experience with backend development and working with API design and high volume distributed services.

Strong programming skills in Java and/or Scala, with hands-on experience in frameworks like Scio and Apache Beam. Some experience with python is a plus.

Dedication to agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation

Proven track record to lead, with direct experience as a technical lead that has driven the cross-functional development and deployment of complex projects across design, implementation, and product release

Eager to collaborate, with a proven track record of working on and leading complex cross functional projects while effectively communicating with all stakeholders

Motivated by being a mentor, and always seeking ways to level up your team

Hands-on experience with orchestration tools like Flyte and Styx

Excellent problem-solving and interpersonal skills

Where You'll Be

We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North American region as long as we have a work location.

This team operates within the EST time zone for collaboration.

The United States base range for this position is $160,091- $228,702 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, paid sick leave. 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.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

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.

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