Data Scientist - Platform Developer Experience

About the Role

The Platform team at Spotify creates the essential technology that enables the company to learn quickly and scale easily, facilitating rapid global growth for users and business alike. Spanning numerous disciplines, this team ensures the business runs smoothly, developing frameworks, capabilities, and tools necessary to serve a billion customers. Join us to amplify productivity, quality, and innovation across Spotify.

We are an insights team dedicated to supporting the domains of Developer Experience, Client Platform, and Core Infrastructure. As a member of our team, you will collaborate closely with a cross-functional group of data scientists, data engineers, user researchers, and product managers, all united by a passion for crafting scalable products for our developers and customers. Your primary focus will be within the Developer Experience domain, striving to create an exceptional experience for Spotify's developers, thereby delivering intuitive, stable, and reliable products for users to enjoy.

What You'll Do as a Data Scientist - Platform Developer Experience

• Work closely with cross-functional teams of skilled engineers, data scientists, user researchers, designers, and product managers who are all passionate about providing an outstanding product experience.
• Define key metrics, build comprehensive dashboards, and compose insightful reports, empowering data-informed improvements to the developer experience.
• Perform exploratory analysis to deeply understand how engineers interact with our internal developer platform, how they derive value from deployment and efficiency tooling, and where we can evolve the developer experience to unlock greater efficiency and innovation.
• Communicate critical insights and actionable recommendations to key stakeholders, actively helping to activate data best practices across the organization.

Who You Are

• You have 4+ years of work experience with a strong emphasis on programmatic data analysis, reporting, and visualization/dashboarding using tools like Tableau or similar BI solutions.
• You are adept at communicating complex technical information clearly and concisely, effectively tailoring your message to different audiences.
• You possess a strong sense of curiosity and are not hesitant to explore new domains; you thrive on partnering with others to define and develop new opportunities.
• You have demonstrated experience applying strong coding skills in languages such as Python, SQL, and/or R to analyze complex datasets.
• You have experience or a significant interest in internal developer platforms and tooling, with exposure to domains such as continuous integration, deployment pipelines, documentation systems, developer education, and generative AI productivity tools.

Where You'll Be

This hybrid 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 and welcomes all individuals regardless of background. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. We believe that diverse voices lead to greater innovation and a thriving business. If you require accommodations during the application or interview process, please let us know.

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.

Key skills/competency

• Data Analysis
• Python
• SQL
• R
• Tableau
• BI Solutions
• Developer Experience
• Reporting
• Visualization
• Continuous Integration (CI)