Backend Engineer - Data Infrastructure

Spotify is looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Data Infrastructure engineering organization. You will forge new ground in how we help teams at Spotify build analytics for internal and music industry–facing tools. Our platform enables capabilities that include showing artists how many streams their latest release has, to informing internal teams about their cloud resource usage.

As a part of a platform team, you will help exemplify, measure and raise the reliability of data infrastructure for squads across different verticals within Spotify. You’ll work closely with engineers to provide OLAP capabilities to build dynamic, reliable data visualizations and share responsibility in diagnosing, resolving, and preventing production issues. We believe engineering teams should take operational responsibility for their products and work hard to support them.

• Build, operate, and evolve a data analytics platform that includes backend services as well as an OLAP data store (Druid) for teams building analytics across Spotify.
• Build internal tooling, libraries, and services that streamline integration patterns with our analytics platform.
• Advocate for best practices in service design, data modeling, schema evolution, and contract testing to ensure long‑term maintainability.
• Work in an autonomous, multi‑functional environment and collaborate with squads across Spotify to continuously iterate and deliver on new product objectives.

• 3+ years of relevant experience with distributed data stores and backend services.
• Proficient in Java and excited to learn Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Understanding of data modeling, dimensional schemas, and analytical query patterns.
• Experience building internal developer tools, libraries, or shared services that support large engineering organizations.
• Strong sense of ownership of service quality, SLOs, and operational excellence.
• Familiar with OLAP databases or analytics warehouses (e.g., Druid, Click House, Pinot, Big Query, Snowflake). Experience with Druid is a strong plus.
• Comfortable with metrics‑driven development and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar).
• Good communicator, empathetic, attentive listener, and able to anticipate the needs of partners.
• Deeply curious, enjoys exploring both technical and organizational problems and domains.
• Eager to learn new technologies and expand expertise.

• This role is based in NYC.
• We offer flexibility to work where you work best! Some in‑person meetings will be required, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.

The United States base range for this position is $125,562–$179,374 plus equity. Benefits include health insurance, six‑month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Spotify is an equal‑opportunity employer. We welcome you 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. If you need reasonable accommodations during the interview process or interview, please let us know – we’re here to support you in any way we can.