Data Engineer III (REMOTE)

Position: Data Engineer III

Duration: 8 Months Contract (With very high possibility of conversion to full time)

Location: New York (Remote)

Contract type: W2 Only

OVERVIEW: We are looking for Data Engineers who are interested in learning about backend development to work on Spotify's Analytics Platform. The Analytics Platform teams help data practitioners effectively leverage Spotifys data and turn them into actionable insights. You will develop, maintain, scale, and monitor Spotifys self-serve visualization platform. This was built to facilitate the understanding of the Spotify user base in areas like demographics, listening habits, use of Spotify and content preferences across products and platforms . By joining the Data and Insights organization, youll be a key contributor in making the systems that power our large-scale data processing, insights, and machine learning efforts more reliable. Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:
Design, build and maintain data pipelines that power Spotifys in-house audience visualization platform
Maintain system architecture documentation and runbooks
Build, automate, maintain, scale, and monitor user-facing systems using standard methodologies, with reliability and scalability in mind
Collaborate with other specialists, product managers, and designers to identify and solve exciting problems, crafting an awesome engineering experience within Spotify
We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them! For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location.

WHO YOU ARE:
You know how to work with data pipelines and have experience working with technologies such as Spark or Beam
You have experience with Java, Scala and their tooling ecosystem
You are experienced with deploying and operating services on Linux

You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code

You have experience with large scale data systems

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users and our creators. This is something we value deeply and we encourage everyone to come be a part of changing the way the world listens to music.