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About the Role

The Ads reporting team is dedicated to creating scalable, reliable data and backend systems that power our advertising ecosystem. Our mission is to enable seamless delivery of personalized, impactful ads while maintaining an exceptional user experience. As part of our team, you will play a key role in shaping and realizing our vision to enhance the advertising experience for our clients and establish Spotify as a market leader in advertising. We are seeking engineers who are passionate about designing, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable systems. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to build data services and APIs that support our advertising platform, enabling innovative features and analytics. Positioned at the heart of our backend operations, you will assist product teams in driving high performance, reliability, and scalability across our systems. Our team culture emphasizes creative problem-solving, rapid iteration, execution, and collaboration.

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

Requirements

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

Skills

Java
Scala
SQL
Python
Pandas
R
Hadoop
BigTable
Cassandra
GCP
AWS
Azure
Scio
GCP Dataflow
AWS EMR
Apache Beam
API design
Microservice architecture
Spring Boot
gRPC
Airflow
PostgreSQL
MySQL
DynamoDB

Location

Americas region

Work Type

Remote

Experience Level

Multiple levels

Salary/Compensations

$132,949 - $189,927

Benefits

Health insurance
Six month paid parental leave
401(k) retirement plan
Monthly meal allowance
23 paid days off
13 paid flexible holidays

About the Company

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.

Equal Opportunity

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.