At Spotify, our data platform powers the insights behind 600+ million Monthly Active Users and supports over 8,000 employees worldwide. Processing more than 2 petabytes of data daily, we enable creators, engineers, and data practitioners to make informed decisions that bring audio to the world.
Picture opening Discover Weekly or your AI DJ to fresh finds or nostalgic throwbacks—now imagine if the music was late, missing, or just plain wrong. That's the experience we aim to prevent, and you’ll be instrumental in making sure our data platform stays reliable, accurate, and impactful.
We’re looking for a Senior Fullstack Engineer to join our Data Quality and Observability team. You’ll build innovative tools that empower developers and data practitioners to collaborate with confidence, ensuring data accuracy and reliability. Your work will shape Spotify’s data-driven future while improving the experience for teams across the company.What You'll Do Lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams of data, backend, and fullstack engineers to deliver robust, production-ready solutions.Enhance our observability and quality tooling stack, continuously shipping well-tested code that delivers at planet scale.Contribute to the vision for data observability, setting and achieving quarterly, annual, and long-term goals.Participate in hack days, hack weeks, and community events to share and expand your expertise.Foster a culture of respect, collaboration, and playfulness within the team, prioritizing excellence in both product and people.Work in an environment where engineers are empowered to take ownership from ideation to production.Who You Are A Proven Leader: You’ve successfully delivered technical solutions, coached peers, and built relationships with leadership to ensure long-term success.Collaborative: You thrive in cross-functional teams, working closely with product managers, designers, platform teams, and leadership to deliver exceptional experiences.Strategic Thinker: You define goals and drive them forward, aligning your work with Spotify’s vision for the future of data.Innovative Builder: You advocate for high architectural standards and promote iterative, fail-fast solutions that deliver impact.Technical Expert: You bring expertise in Java, TypeScript, React, (Bonus: Scala), systems design, and algorithms, with hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, event-driven systems, SRE practices).Impactful Engineer: You’ve shipped high-quality code and contributed to developer tools or data platform projects, improving team productivity and reliability.This role is for someone who wants to set the bar for technical excellence, mentor others, and make a tangible impact on a global platform. If you’re ready to lead and innovate at scale, we’d love to hear from you!Where You'll Be This role is based in New York. We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.The United States base range for this position is $182,962 - $228,702, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include 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. These ranges may be modified in the future.