Senior Backend Engineer - job 1 of 3

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.

Within Spotify’s Advertising mission, the Identity & Privacy team is building foundational services that power our entire ads business. Among other things, we own the Identity Exchange platform, a system that serves as the single source of truth for user identity, and the Consent Capabilities service, which ensures we always respect user privacy. We are looking for a Senior Backend engineer, to help us design and build the next generation of offerings for our identity and privacy platform, ensuring our systems are reliable, privacy-centric, and capable of operating at massive scale.

• Design, develop and maintain robust, scalable, low latency services using Java, Scala, GCP services like GKE, PubSub, Bigtable, and BigQuery and our orchestration stack.
• Build and optimize high-throughput systems for critical projects such as Signal Matching, 1P/2P data ingestion, and our Demand-Side Platform integrations (ID5, EUID, LiveRamp and more).
• Collaborate closely with Data engineers, Machine Learning engineers, and other teams, to enhance our probabilistic identity models and deliver our ambitious roadmap.
• Provide strong technical leadership over architecture and development of key, privacy-centric features, such as enhancing Consent Capabilities and building new tools to manage user data.
• Champion scalability, testability, maintainability, reliability and high-quality code, ensuring we follow Spotify’s Golden Path technologies.
• Work in a T-shaped environment, collaborating with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders, embracing learning and leadership opportunities daily.
• Lead on architecture and design decisions when needed, while also being comfortable executing on plans, pair-programming and debugging with your teammates.

• Proven experience working with distributed, high-volume production services, and strong programming skills in Java
• Commitment to agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation
• Strong interest in, and ideally some experience with, data engineering and building data processing workflows and pipelines.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to navigate complex technical and product requirements.

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North American region as long as we have a work location.
• This team operates within the EST time zone for collaboration.

The United States base range for this position is $160,091- $228,702 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, paid sick leave. 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.

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.

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.