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About the Role
Lead a team of six experienced engineers in the Data Platform studio, focusing on event delivery and data pseudonymisation systems. This role involves setting technical direction, ensuring high-impact delivery, and investing in engineer growth.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of six experienced engineers, focusing on coaching, career development, and fostering a high-performance environment.
- Take accountability for team delivery, ensuring clear priorities, healthy execution, and measurable outcomes.
- Partner with product and stakeholders to shape the roadmap for event delivery and privacy infrastructure.
- Drive technical strategy and architectural decisions for large-scale systems.
- Build a culture of ownership, psychological safety, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate across Data Platform and the wider engineering organization to align on shared goals and dependencies.
- Manage on-call health, operational excellence, and reliability for the team's services.
- Actively participate in hiring, onboarding, and growing the team's capabilities.
Requirements
- Experience managing teams of senior/experienced engineers, with people leadership as a primary craft.
- Track record of investing in engineers' careers, including development conversations and progression clarity.
- Comfort with distributed data systems, event-driven architectures, or data infrastructure at scale.
- Ability to engage credibly in technical discussions and unblock the team.
- Accountability for outcomes, not just activity.
- Clear communication and trust-building across functions and time zones.
- Experience with distributed teams and creating cohesion and inclusion.
- Excitement about AI and LLMs transforming engineering workflows and data infrastructure.
Skills
- People leadership
- Coaching
- Career development
- Technical strategy
- Architectural decisions
- Distributed data systems
- Event-driven architectures
- Data infrastructure at scale
- Communication
- Team building
- AI and LLMs
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Manager
- Senior
About the Company
- Spotify owns two critical pillars within the Data Platform studio: an event delivery platform handling trillions of events daily, and a system for data pseudonymisation to ensure responsible data use and privacy compliance.
- These systems are central to Spotify's data collection and are utilized by hundreds of teams across the company.
- Spotify is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusivity and accessibility throughout the recruitment process.
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!
- Bring 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.
- Spotify is 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.