Backend Engineer, Content Understanding
About the Role
As a Software Engineer in our Content Understanding teams, you will build the software and platform tools that enable Spotify to build great experiences for its users through real-time analysis of our large catalog of music, podcasts, and audiobooks.
What You'll Do
- Build large-scale batch and real-time/event-driven systems with cloud infrastructure like Google Cloud Platform, BigTable, BigQuery, and Pub/Sub.
- Design, develop, and deploy backend services in Java (and some Python) with a focus on high availability, robustness, and monitoring.
- Leverage best practices in continuous integration and delivery.
- Help drive optimization, testing, and tooling to improve data and systems quality.
- Work in cross-functional agile teams to continuously experiment, iterate, and deliver on new product objectives.
- Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team.
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth by providing you with ambitious tasks to solve and the time needed to acquire new skills.
Who You Are
- You have at least three years of professional experience working in a product-driven environment building production software.
- You know how to work with high volume heterogeneous data, preferably with distributed systems such as Hadoop, BigTable, and Cassandra.
- You know how to write distributed, high-volume services in Java, Scala, or Python.
- You have an understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms.
- You are knowledgeable about data modeling, data access, and data storage techniques.
- You have worked deploying and operating services in a cloud environment such as GCP or AWS.
- You enjoy close collaboration with front-end engineers and care about the software architecture across the backend, frontend, and the APIs that glue them together.
- You care about agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation.
Location
For this role, you will be based in New York City, USA.
Compensation
The United States base range for this position is $122,716 - $175,308, 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, and 13 paid flexible holidays. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- 401(k)
- Medical insurance
- Six month paid parental leave
- Monthly meal allowance
- 23 paid days off
- 13 paid flexible holidays
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