Backend Engineer - Data Infrastructure
SpotifyNew York, New York, United States
Posted December 26, 2025
125562 - 179374 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
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.
Job Description
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.
Requirements
- 3+ years of relevant experience with distributed datastores, and backend services.
- Proficient in Java and excited to learn Kubernetes, 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, ClickHouse, Pinot, BigQuery, Snowflake).
- Experience with Druid is a strong plus.
- Comfort with metrics-driven development and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, similar).
- Good communication and empathy skills.
- Deep curiosity and eagerness to learn new technologies.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Six month paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Monthly meal allowance
- 23 paid days off
- 13 paid flexible holidays
- Paid sick leave