Backend Engineer Job at Spotify (New York)

Backend Engineer

Spotify

Location:
United States , New York

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

125562.00 - 179374.00 USD / Year

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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. 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 of 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 with them in diagnosing, resolving, and preventing production issues. We are strong believers in engineering teams taking operational responsibility for their products and work hard to support them in this.

Job Responsibility:

Build, operate, and evolve data analytics platform that includes backend services as well as 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, mult-functional environment and collaborate with squads across Spotify to continuously iterate and deliver on new product objectives

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)
Comfort with metrics-driven development and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, similar)
You are a good communicator and an empathetic, attentive listener with the capability to anticipate the needs of partners
You are deeply curious, and enjoy exploring both technical and organizational problems and domains
You are eager to learn new technologies and to expand your area of expertise

Nice to have:

Experience with Druid is a strong plus

What we offer:

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
equity
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 - 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

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 04, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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