Senior Data Engineer - Data Platform
- Level
- Senior
- Work type
- Hybrid · London
Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.
Open. First seen 21 August 2026.
About the role
The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers.
The Data Platform team develops and maintains the infrastructure that supports Spotify’s data ecosystem. Within Data Platform, the Data Collection product area builds infrastructure that makes it easier to collect and consume data at scale. You’ll join a team focused on making user behaviour data seamless and reliable for data teams across Spotify.
What You'll Do
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to build and support critical data infrastructure and datasets.
- Build systems that collect and process user behaviour data at scale.
- Help power Spotify’s personalization and recommendation systems, as well as the tools teams use to build and test new features.
- Design and evolve data architectures that support high data volumes and a broad range of internal users.
- Improve the reliability, scalability, and usability of our data infrastructure.
- Work across disciplines to solve complex data challenges and make an impact across Spotify.
Who You Are
- You are an experienced Data Engineer, and proficient in backend development using Java.
- You are comfortable working with large-scale datasets using SQL and platforms such as BigQuery.
- You have experience with JVM-based data processing frameworks such as Flink, Beam, Dataflow, or Spark.
- You are familiar with DevOps practices, cloud infrastructure, containerized applications, and Kubernetes fundamentals.
- You have experience with data modeling and schema design.
- You care about high-quality code and engineering practices such as continuous delivery and automated testing.
- You value experimentation, iterative development, and collaborative software development practices.
- You are comfortable navigating ambiguity and open-ended problems, using data and sound judgment to make decisions.
Where You'll Be
- This role is based in London
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.
Spotify's standard text
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.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Flink · Kubernetes · Test Automation
Rare in Spotify's other 47 open postings.
Standard for data engineering roles
SQL · Spark
Common in data engineering postings at any company.
68% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Spotify's standard text, folded away below.
Read against Spotify's other open postings on this site.
The team: Platform HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 15 open in Platform. 7 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in October: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Java (7 of 15), Data Warehousing (4 of 15), BigQuery (3 of 15), Flink (3 of 15), GCP (3 of 15), Kubernetes (3 of 15), Spark (3 of 15)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Security Engineer - Enterprise Security posted Oct 13
- Backend Engineer - Platform Security posted Oct 6
- Senior Software Engineer posted Oct 2
- Backend Engineer - Data Platform posted Oct 1
- Backend Engineer II - Data Platform posted Sep 28
- Security Engineer - Detection and Response posted Sep 24
- Senior Product Manager - User Platform posted Sep 23
- Engineering Manager - Experimentation posted Sep 1
- Senior Software Engineer - Enterprise AI posted Aug 13
- Senior Fullstack Engineer posted Jul 31
- Engineering Manager - Data Platform posted Jul 21
- Senior Fullstack Engineer posted Jul 21
- Senior C++/iOS Engineer - User Platform posted Jul 6
- Engineering Manager - Experimentation posted Oct 24
From the team and dates on Spotify's own job board.
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