Staff Data Engineer — Subscriptions User Understanding
SpotifyAudio Streaming company
London, United KingdomLead
TPG
Goldman Sachs
Northzone
Accel
DST Global
Founders Fund
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Staff Data Engineer to define and drive data strategy for Spotify's Subscriptions domain.
- •Spotify is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to join the Subscriptions User Understanding team.
- •This role is crucial for understanding subscriber health and enabling data-driven decisions across the company.
- •Key Responsibilities Define and drive data engineering strategy for the Subscriptions domain.
- •Design scalable batch and streaming data platforms.
- •Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver data solutions.
- •Lead architectural decisions and establish best practices for data quality and reliability.
- •Mentor senior engineers and foster a culture of thoughtful engineering.
- •Requirements Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale cloud-native data platforms.
- •Deep experience building reliable distributed data pipelines using technologies like Scio, BigQuery, Dataflow, GCS, SQL, Python.
- •Strong understanding of modern data modeling, metadata management, governance, and data quality practices.
- •Ability to balance immediate business needs with long-term architectural sustainability.
- •Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Required skills
PythonSQLBigQuery
Domain expertise
entertainment-music
Tech stack
PythonSQLBigQuery