[Remote] Data Engineer II, Ads Product & Tech

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Spotify is seeking a Data Engineer II to join their Advertising Product & Technology team, focused on building a next-generation advertising platform. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining scalable data systems and backend services to enhance the advertising experience for clients while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Responsibilities • Maintain and enhance Spotify’s reporting pipelines, ensuring they remain business-critical • Build large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines to efficiently collect, process, and store reporting-related data • Make enhancements to data models and ETL code to improve pipeline efficiency and data quality • Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services and APIs to power Spotify’s advertising platform • Work closely with stakeholders to understand and translate business requirements into technical solutions • Write scalable, testable, maintainable, and high-quality code • Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders, embracing learning and leadership opportunities daily • Monitor daily execution, diagnose issues, and ensure SLAs are met by maintaining and fixing business-critical pipelines Skills • Experience in data engineering with high-volume, heterogeneous data, ideally within distributed systems such as Hadoop, BigTable, Cassandra, GCP, AWS, or Azure • Familiarity with data processing frameworks like Scio, GCP Dataflow, AWS EMR, and Apache Beam • Familiarity with API design, microservice architecture, and frameworks like Spring Boot or gRPC • Programming skills in Java or Scala, and for analytics and data extraction (SQL, Python, Pandas, R) • Commitment to agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation • Hands-on experience with orchestration tools like Airflow or similar • Experience with database systems, both relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational (e.g., Cassandra, DynamoDB) • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills Benefits • Health insurance • Six month paid parental leave • 401(k) retirement plan • Monthly meal allowance • 23 paid days off • 13 paid flexible holidays Company Overview • Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that provides restricted digital content from a range of record labels and artists. It was founded in 2006, and is headquartered in Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, SWE, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship • Spotify has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 140 in 2025, 117 in 2024, 169 in 2023, 259 in 2022, 172 in 2021, 115 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply tot his job