Backend Engineer - Platform

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.

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