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Senior Data Engineer, Analytics

Grindr· Data/ML
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Hybrid (Chicago), Hybrid (San Francisco), Hybrid (Palo Alto)Full-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior Data Engineer responsible for owning data for Grindr's newest features, building AI-ready analytics, semantic layers, and productive data pipelines to support data science, ML engineering, analytics, and AI agents like Data Daddy.

Responsibilities

  • Own Our Newest Features: Take end-to-end ownership of critical business datasets, from understanding stakeholder requirements and designing data models to building pipelines, validating metrics, and ensuring data quality.
  • Build AI-Ready Analytics: Design and develop reliable, well-structured data models that power analytics, reporting, and AI-driven tools like Data Daddy, enabling employees to ask complex business questions using natural language.
  • Develop the Semantic Layer: Create and maintain reusable metrics, dimensional models, and semantic definitions that make data consistent, discoverable, and accessible to both human analysts and AI agents.
  • Partner Across Teams: Work closely with Data Science, ML Engineering, Product, and Analytics to translate business questions into scalable data solutions that support decision-making, experimentation, and machine learning.
  • Leverage Modern Engineering Tools: Use AI-assisted development tools and modern data engineering practices to accelerate development and raise the bar on how we model, test, and document data.

Qualifications

  • Analytics Engineering Fundamentals: Strong SQL skills and experience designing dimensional data models, defining business metrics, and building datasets that support complex analytical questions.
  • Data Engineering Experience: Experience turning raw, high-volume event data into reliable production datasets, including applying business logic, building and maintaining transformations, and validating data quality in a modern cloud warehouse with orchestration tools like Airflow.
  • Semantic Modeling: Understanding of semantic layers, metric definitions, and how to structure data so that business logic is reusable, consistent, and interpretable across multiple datasets.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Experience working with Data Scientists, ML Engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver reliable data products.
  • AI-Native Development: Experience using agentic coding tools (Cursor, Codex, Claude Code or similar) as a core part of daily work.

Benefits

  • Health, Dental & Vision: Full premium coverage for you. Partial coverage for dependents.
  • Family Formation: Up to $300,000 in fertility and family-building support, covering IVF, surrogacy, egg freezing, and adoption.
  • Retirement: 401(k) with 6% match and immediate vesting.
  • Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation, company bonus, and equity for every employee.
  • Gender-Affirming Care: Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.
  • Time Off & Rest: Flexible vacation policy. Two company-wide rest weeks per year.
  • Other Benefits: Monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, breakfast/lunch
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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