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Engineering Manager - Data Platform
Spotify
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid
Experience
3 years
Job description
Engineering Manager leading a team of six experienced engineers in Spotify's Data Platform studio, owning event delivery and data pseudonymisation infrastructure. The role combines technical direction-setting with people leadership and delivery accountability.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Hybrid
What you'll do
- Lead and develop a team of six experienced engineers, with a strong focus on coaching, career development, and creating an environment where people do the best work of their careers
- Take accountability for the team's delivery, ensuring clear priorities, healthy execution, and measurable outcomes
- Partner with product and stakeholders to shape the roadmap for event delivery and privacy infrastructure
- Drive technical strategy and architectural decisions for systems operating at Spotify scale
- Build a culture of ownership, psychological safety, and continuous improvement
- Collaborate across Data Platform and the wider engineering organisation to align on shared goals and dependencies
- Manage on-call health, operational excellence, and reliability for the team's services
- Actively participate in hiring, onboarding, and growing the team's capabilities
What we're looking for
- Experience managing teams of senior/experienced engineers, with people leadership as the primary craft
- Track record of investing in engineers' careers - running meaningful development conversations, helping people grow into new roles, and creating clarity around expectations and progression
- Comfortable with distributed data systems, event-driven architectures, or data infrastructure at scale - able to engage credibly in technical discussions and unblock the team without writing code
- Holds self and team accountable for outcomes, not just activity
- Communicates clearly and builds trust across functions and time zones
- Has worked with distributed teams and understands how to create cohesion and inclusion when people aren't in the same room
- Excited about the potential of AI and LLMs to transform how engineering teams work
Your team
Data Platform studio
Owns two critical pillars: an event delivery platform that collects trillions of events per day from producers to consumers, and a system handling pseudonymisation of data so Spotify can use data responsibly and in compliance with privacy regulations. These systems are used by hundreds of teams across the company.