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Posted 7 days ago

Backend Engineer - Data Platform

Spotify

  • Salary: not listed by employer

  • Estimated range: not enough salary data for this role yet.

  • Permanent residency after about 4 yrs

  • Citizenship after about 8 yrs

  • Work language: likely English (posting is in English)

About the role

LilEngine is leading the Lakehouse, a company-strategic effort to make Apache Iceberg a first-class citizen in Spotify's data ecosystem. We're building it in close collaboration with Google, on open standards, so that different kinds of data are queryable the same way and teams can bring the right engine, from BigQuery to Dataflow to Trino, to the job. The work has two parts. Hecate enables Iceberg for the Parquet datasets that already exist across Spotify, so teams get the benefits without rewriting their data. Alongside it, we're building the foundations of a new Lakehouse architecture that lets workflows write Iceberg tables natively. We're shipping the MVP this cycle, and you'll help…

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Location Insights: Stockholm

  • Rent (City)

    A 2-room flat (one bedroom) in the inner city costs on average 114,766 kr a year, about 9,564 kr a month (2025). These are regulated first-hand rents, not market rents. Newcomers usually rent second-hand, at higher prices.

  • Take-home pay (Country tax)

    Needs a posted salary to estimate

  • Weather (City)

    Stockholm: summer highs about 71°F / 22°C, winter highs about 34°F / 1°C

  • Safety (Country)

    High peacefulness (Global Peace Index rank 40)

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