Backend Engineer, Platform

Spotify

Software Engineering

London, UK · Madrid, Spain · London, UK · Madrid, Spain

Posted on Nov 12, 2024

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Backend

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to Join our Data Protection team and be a key player in ensuring that data at Spotify is appropriately protected. You will contribute to building a scalable data protection platform that ensures data across Spotify is appropriately protected, managed, and deleted when no longer needed. This is a highly impactful role where you'll develop systems that empower engineers across the company to efficiently deliver secure, reliable, and compliant solutions.

Locations

London
Madrid

Job type

Permanent

You'll design, build, and optimise backend services and data pipelines that support data retention, access, and deletion requirements, ensuring Spotify meets evolving privacy and regulatory standards. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to tackle challenging problems and implement solutions that scale to meet the needs of the entire organisation.

What You'll Do

Design, develop, and maintain backend services and data pipelines that enable the safe use of data across the company.
Collaborate closely with globally distributed teams to implement solutions that scale to handle millions of requests per second.
Utilise technologies such as Java, Scala, microservices, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Dataflow, and Spanner.
Participate in the operational responsibility for services, including being part of an on-call rotation for critical service at Spotify.
Drive automation efforts to improve system efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
Drive the optimization, testing, and tooling efforts to improve the quality of data and systems.
Contribute to a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and adopting new technologies.

Who You Are

You have at least two years professional experience working in a product-driven environment building production software.
You know how to write distributed, high-volume services and have strong programming skills in Java and/or Scala.
Experience with cloud platforms, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including services like Dataflow, GCS, BigQuery and Spanner.
Ability to work optimally in a remote-first, distributed team environment.
A track record of designing and driving small to medium-scale automation projects autonomously.

Where You'll Be

For this role you will be in London or Madrid

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Our global benefits

Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.

Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.

Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents.

All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.

Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.

Learn about life at Spotify

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.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with a community of more than 500 million users.

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