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Backend Engineer II - Data Platform

Spotify· Engineering – Platform
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Hybrid (Stockholm, Sweden), Hybrid (London, UK)PermanentPosted 3w ago

About the role

Backend role focused on data management for Spotify's data platform, building and maintaining data catalog, lineage, and metadata systems to ensure data correctness, reliability and governance across batch and streaming workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Build and Evolve Core Services: Design, build and operate the backend services and APIs behind our data catalog, lineage and publishing systems, and evolve them as the platform adopts new storage technologies and new kinds of data. Hold them to a high bar for correctness, performance and reliability.
  • Build Data Pipelines: Develop and run the batch and streaming pipelines that keep our metadata current, processing platform events and audit logs to capture how data is created and changed, and turning lineage and metadata into data products other teams build on.
  • Own Projects End to End: Turn what the teams using our platform need into technical designs, drive them through delivery and rollout, and own the results once they're in production.
  • Keep the Platform Healthy: Take part in on-call for critical services, build in observability and quality checks by default, and use automation, including AI tooling, to reduce toil for the team and our users.

Qualifications

  • Solid experience building and running backend services and APIs in production with Java, and care about API design, versioning and backward compatibility.
  • Comfortable with SQL and have worked with data pipelines or a cloud data warehouse such as BigQuery, Snowflake or Databricks. Hands-on experience with batch or streaming frameworks like Beam, Flink or Spark is a plus.
  • Working understanding of data engineering concepts such as orchestration, metadata management, data quality, governance and lineage.
  • Ability to break problems down into clear, shippable steps, reason through tradeoffs and risks, and converge on clear recommendations.
  • Own the quality of what you ship, including code written with AI assistance, and care about operating it well after launch.
  • Strong communicator and collaborator who enjoys working across teams, comfortable in a dynamic platform environment where many engineers depend on what you build and priorities evolve with the business.

Skills

Required:JavaSQLData pipelines (batch/streaming)Data governance / metadata management / lineageAPI design and versioningCommunication and collaboration

Benefits

  • We do not have explicit benefits listed in the description.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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