Senior Data Engineer - Data Platform

London🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-12 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build and maintain scalable data infrastructure to collect, process, and serve user behavior data for Spotify's personalization and recommendation systems.

Role type

Senior IC data engineer (data platform)

Builds

Data collection infrastructure, processing pipelines, and datasets for user behavior

Domain

Streaming music / Big Data

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Java, SQL, BigQuery, Flink, Beam, Dataflow, Spark, Kubernetes, data modeling, schema design

Preferred skills

DevOps practices, containerized applications, continuous delivery, automated testing

Technologies

Java, SQL, BigQuery, Flink, Beam, Dataflow, Spark, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Collaborate with product and engineering teams to build critical data infrastructure; Build systems to collect and process user behavior data at scale; Design and evolve data architectures for high volumes; Improve reliability, scalability, and usability of data infrastructure

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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About Spotify

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