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Senior Data Engineer - Data Platform

London
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

From the team and dates on Spotify's own job board.

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