Data Engineer, Podcast Mission

Spotify is a global community of over 250 million music fans, artists, and now podcasters. It's always been our mission to make audio more accessible for everyone, and create innovative ways for creators and fans to connect with each other.

The Podcast Mission is the product and technology team at Spotify responsible for building the best tools for podcast creators. We own the platforms, tools, and features that deliver a great creator experience, allowing podcasters to host (for free!), create, and distribute their episodes, while making money from their art and growing and engaging with their audience.

Our team is also responsible for innovating on the podcast format and making podcasting on Spotify more interactive and engaging than ever before. Some of the industry-first features we’ve launched for Spotify creators and their fans include interactivity (Q&A, Polls, etc), video podcasts, Music & Talk (the ability to include music in your podcast and ensure artists are paid for those plays), and monetization offerings that are available to all creators, not just the ones who are big enough to land their own sponsors.

We are looking for a thoughtful and versatile engineer to join our team and help build tools that hundreds of thousands of podcast creators use every month, powering 80% of all new podcasts globally. You will join a tight-knit and collaborative team, continuously improving our engineering practices, helping each other grow and delivering the best technology of our creators.

What You'll Do:

• Work on a multi-functional team of web, mobile, and backend engineers building a best-in-class analytics offering for podcast creators
• Build large-scale event processing systems, as well as batch/streaming data pipelines using frameworks like Apache Beam, Dataflow, and Scio
• Create ETL/ELT jobs to import and transform data within our data warehouse (BigQuery)
• Work with your engineering manager and product manager to review product specs and translate them into engineering tasks.
• Collaborate on tech specs to design scalable, observable, and maintainable systems
• Use best practices in continuous integration and delivery
• Help drive optimization, testing and tooling to improve data quality
• Work in agile teams to continuously experiment, iterate and deliver on new product objectives
• Support and learn from engineers in your domain and across the organization

Who You Are:

• You know how to work with high-volume heterogeneous data, preferably with distributed systems such as Hadoop, BigTable, DynamoDB, or Cassandra
• You know how to write distributed, high-volume services - experience with Java or Scala is a plus
• You are knowledgeable about data modeling, data access, and data storage techniques.
• You appreciate agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation
• You appreciate the importance of great documentation and data debugging skills
• You enjoy working autonomously, but you know when to ask for help
• You understand the value of partnership within teams

Where You'll Be:

• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location
• Prefer to work from an office? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here
• Working hours? We operate within the Eastern time zone for collaboration

The United States base range for this position is $122,716 - $175,308, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays. These ranges may be modified in the future.

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.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.