Spotify · 5 hours ago
Data Engineer II, Ads Product & Tech
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
$133K/yr - $190K/yrSpotify is seeking a Data Engineer II to join their Advertising Product & Technology team, focused on building a next-generation advertising platform. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining scalable data systems and backend services to enhance the advertising experience for clients while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
AudioCloud ComputingMusicMusic StreamingPodcast
Responsibilities
Maintain and enhance Spotify’s reporting pipelines, ensuring they remain business-critical
Build large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines to efficiently collect, process, and store reporting-related data
Make enhancements to data models and ETL code to improve pipeline efficiency and data quality
Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services and APIs to power Spotify’s advertising platform
Work closely with stakeholders to understand and translate business requirements into technical solutions
Write scalable, testable, maintainable, and high-quality code
Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders, embracing learning and leadership opportunities daily
Monitor daily execution, diagnose issues, and ensure SLAs are met by maintaining and fixing business-critical pipelines
Qualification
Required
Experience in data engineering with high-volume, heterogeneous data, ideally within distributed systems such as Hadoop, BigTable, Cassandra, GCP, AWS, or Azure
Familiarity with data processing frameworks like Scio, GCP Dataflow, AWS EMR, and Apache Beam
Familiarity with API design, microservice architecture, and frameworks like Spring Boot or gRPC
Programming skills in Java or Scala, and for analytics and data extraction (SQL, Python, Pandas, R)
Commitment to agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation
Hands-on experience with orchestration tools like Airflow or similar
Experience with database systems, both relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational (e.g., Cassandra, DynamoDB)
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
Benefits
Health insurance
Six month paid parental leave
401(k) retirement plan
Monthly meal allowance
23 paid days off
13 paid flexible holidays
Company
Spotify
Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that provides restricted digital content from a range of record labels and artists.
Founded in 2006
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (140)
2024 (117)
2023 (169)
2022 (259)
2021 (172)
2020 (115)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.09BKey Investors
ValueAct CapitalManhattan Venture Partners (MVP)Goldman Sachs Investment Partners
2023-02-10Post Ipo Equity
2021-02-25Post Ipo Debt
2018-04-03IPO
Leadership Team
Alex Norstrom
Co-CEO
Daniel Ek
Chairman & CEO
Recent News
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