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Senior Data Engineer - Data Platform

Spotify· Engineering – Platform
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Hybrid (London)PermanentPosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Data Engineer role focusing on the Data Platform team, building and maintaining infrastructure to support Spotify’s data ecosystem, with an emphasis on collecting and processing user behaviour data at scale to enable personalization, recommendations, and data-driven features.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to build and support critical data infrastructure and datasets.
  • Build systems that collect and process user behaviour data at scale.
  • Help power Spotify’s personalization and recommendation systems, as well as the tools teams use to build and test new features.
  • Design and evolve data architectures that support high data volumes and a broad range of internal users.
  • Improve the reliability, scalability, and usability of our data infrastructure.
  • Work across disciplines to solve complex data challenges and make an impact across Spotify.

Qualifications

  • Experienced Data Engineer, proficient in backend development using Java.
  • Comfortable working with large-scale datasets using SQL and platforms such as BigQuery.
  • Experience with JVM-based data processing frameworks such as Flink, Beam, Dataflow, or Spark.
  • Familiar with DevOps practices, cloud infrastructure, containerized applications, and Kubernetes fundamentals.
  • Experience with data modeling and schema design.
  • Cares about high-quality code and engineering practices such as continuous delivery and automated testing.
  • Values experimentation, iterative development, and collaborative software development practices.
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and open-ended problems, using data and sound judgment to make decisions.

Skills

Required:JavaSQLBigQueryJVM-based data processing frameworks
Nice to have:DevOps / Cloud / Kubernetes
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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