Mission Statement
The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers.
About the Team
We’re looking for an Analytics Engineer II to join Spotify's Platform Central Data (PCD) squad, a cross-functional Data Engineering and Analytics Engineering team within the Platform Mission. You’ll help build and maintain trusted analytical models, metrics, and data products that power developer productivity, platform health, and leadership decision-making. Working closely with Data Engineers, Product, Engineering, and Platform partners, you’ll translate platform signals into reliable, well-modeled data assets that help Spotify ship faster and safer.
What You"ll Do
Build and maintain analytical data models using dbt (or similar SQL-based transformation frameworks) in BigQuery for a broad set of stakeholders
Build and operate reliable data pipelines using SQL, with a focus on testing, observability, and CI/CD
Help define and evolve key metrics for platform health, developer productivity, and ML/AI platform adoption
Partner with Data Engineers on upstream pipelines and collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data Science to scope and deliver insights
Improve data quality, performance, and cost efficiency across pipelines and models, including troubleshooting and backfills
Contribute to dashboards and self-serve data products that enable better decision-making across teams
Follow and contribute to data quality, testing, and documentation practices across the analytics layer
Participate in a fair support rotation for key datasets, pipelines, and analytical products
Who You Are
You have 2+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or a related field
You have strong SQL skills and experience with data modelling
You are experienced with dbt (or similar SQL-based transformation frameworks) and a cloud data warehouse such as BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, or Databricks SQL
You are familiar with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or Flyte
You care about data quality, reliability, and testability
You are comfortable working with BI/visualisation tools such as Looker or Tableau
You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical partners
You are able to prioritize and deliver in a fast-moving environment
You have experience with platform or developer productivity data, experimentation, or ML/AI metrics
Where You'll Be
This role is based in London or Stockholm.
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.
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.
