Senior Data Scientist – Core Infrastructure

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 frameworks, capabilities and tools needed to welcome a billion customers. Join us and help to amplify productivity, quality and innovation across Spotify.
Core Infrastructure’s goal is to provide world-class cloud-native infrastructure to Spotify’s engineers. As a member of the insights team, you’ll work closely with cross-functional teams of skilled engineers, data scientists, user researchers, designers, and product managers who are all passionate about creating scalable products for our developers and customers. You’ll help us understand and measure the impact of engineering investments and drive product decisions to unlock and maximize Spotify’s developer productivity. 

What you’ll do

• Define metrics, create key datasets, and build dashboards reports to empower data-informed product development
• Perform exploratory analysis to understand who our users are, how they get value out of our offering and where we can further develop our product to bring greater value
• Collaborate closely and support product managers and engineers across the organization to create and promote shared data-informed methods
• Develop and innovate on our mixed-methods insights practice, and contribute to the wider Insights community at Spotify
• Derive relevant answers and actionable insights from loosely defined problems

Who you are

• You have 5+ years of relevant experience, working with software engineering teams
• You have relevant training in statistics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, economics or another quantitative discipline
• You possess statistical skills to perform advanced analytics (such as regression modelling and significance testing)
• You have experience working with large datasets in a cloud-based data processing environment, such as BigQuery or similar and visualization tools (like Tableau or Data Studio)
• You have coding skills, such as Python, Java, or Scala, and experience with analytics tools such as Pandas, R, SQL, or Hadoop

Where you'll be

• For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
• Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere  options here.

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.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with a community of more than 381 million users.