Engineering Manager - Data Platform

We are looking for a passionate and experienced engineering manager to join Spotify’s Data Management Product Area. The Data Management Product Area is a part of the Data Platform Tribe - Spotify’s division that is dedicated to building out a world class data platform. Our vision is to enable Spotify to become the best company in the world using data and insights to drive the business forward. Data Management provides the platform that enables Spotify to efficiently produce, manage and consume high quality data.
As an engineering manager, you will manage and lead the engineers in 1-2 of our squads in the Data Quality space and in collaboration with product managers support the teams to have a high degree of impact.

Who you are:

• You love developing and growing people and have a track record doing it
• You have experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers towards delivering timely, high quality software together with them
• You have experience in encouraging a strong engineering culture in an agile environment
• Have a validated engineering background with previous experience developing large scale systems for data engineering, including processing, storage, quality and management
• You have experience working with a diverse set of stakeholders and helping them understand the trade-offs to different product and technical decisions
• You care about agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation

What you'll do:

• You will build and lead a team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
• Drive and be accountable for technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution
• Facilitate collaboration with other engineers and product managers in solving exciting and challenging problems across the platform
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization
• Grow the technical expertise of the team

Where you'll be:

• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
• Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration and ask that all be located in that time zone.
• 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.
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This role is not eligible for hire in Colorado, USA.