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Staff Data Engineer – Subscriptions User Understanding

Data EngineerData EngineerFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 5,001-10,000Since 2008H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United Kingdom

Posted

4 days ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Lead

Bachelor DegreeEnglishBigQueryCloudPythonSQL

Job Description

Staff Data Engineer – Subscriptions User Understanding

Spotify

• Define and drive the long-term data engineering strategy for the Subscriptions User Understanding domain, identifying opportunities that improve scalability, reliability, and business impact. • Design scalable batch and streaming data platforms that power analytics, experimentation, machine learning, and subscriber experiences. • Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Platform teams to turn complex business challenges into durable, well-designed data solutions. • Lead architectural decisions and establish engineering best practices for data quality, governance, observability, reliability, and operational excellence across multiple squads. • Design data models and platform architecture that support sustainable growth toward one billion users while balancing performance, cost, and maintainability. • Simplify complex systems, reduce technical debt, and improve the developer experience across the broader data ecosystem. • Mentor senior engineers, influence technical direction through collaboration, and help foster a culture of thoughtful engineering, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.

Job Requirements

  • Extensive experience designing, building, and operating large-scale cloud-native data platforms.
  • Deep experience building reliable distributed data pipelines using technologies such as Scio, BigQuery, Dataflow, GCS, SQL, Python, or similar cloud-native tools.
  • Strong understanding of modern data modeling, metadata management, governance, and data quality practices.
  • Ability to balance immediate business needs with long-term architectural sustainability.
  • Effective communication with engineers, product managers, data scientists, analysts, and senior leadership.
  • Enjoy mentoring engineers and helping technical teams grow through coaching, technical guidance, and thoughtful feedback.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements

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