Senior Data Engineer

This is a hybrid role based in our Chicago office and will require you to be in the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays. What’s so interesting about this role? The big data space is growing rapidly at Grindr and we're looking to add a Senior Data Engineer skilled in real-time streaming technologies and committed to achieving high quality and reliability with TDD, automation, and continuous delivery. Beyond the data pipeline, you'll bring data-driven products and features to life and help build the future of Grindr. In this role, you'll work with our product teams, building models and APIs to drive new features, deliver analysis to improve engagement in existing features, and provide our business with real-time insights to boost in market share, engagement, and revenue. We process 10TB of data daily, seeing 1 trillion events each year. What’s the job? You'll design, develop, and deliver data products to production while complying with internal data governance, security, and system scalability. You'll be responsible for real-time and batch processing, data governance, and policies. You'll maintain and enforce business contracts on data representation and storage. You'll explore new technologies through R&D and prototyping to improve our big data architectures and systems. You'll put in place ETL processes, transferring data between systems including S3, Snowflake, Kafka, and Spark. You'll work closely with our Data Scientists, SREs, and Product Managers to ensure our software meets user requirements. What we’ll love about you You possess 5+ years of experience working with data at scale and in data engineering, business intelligence, or a related field. You have 7+ years experience using Python and are familiar with big data technologies (Snowflake, Airflow, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Spark, pySpark). You have significant experience with relational databases and query authoring (SQL) in Snowflake or other distributed Databases. You have experience with agile engineering practices like TDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration, automated testing, and deployment. You have experience building stream-processing systems, using solutions such as Kafka, Storm, or Spark-Streaming. You are familiar with ETL, data management tools, legal compliance, data classification, and retention. Base salary is an important part of the overall compensation package, but there's so much more to love about Grindr. Our mission impacts the lives of millions of LGBTQ people worldwide. We provide family insurance, retirement savings, industry-competitive compensation, equity, inclusive benefits, and more. We are looking to hire someone in the Chicago area. About Grindr Grindr is the world’s largest dating app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people, with 13 million monthly active users. We pride ourselves on empowering our users to connect, express themselves, and discover the queer world around them. We're evolving as a newly public company and aim to build meaningful experiences for our users, while leveraging the latest tech stacks and pursuing engineering excellence. We favor openness and exploration, a bias for action, and strong support of the LGBTQ community. We are continuously looking for talented, passionate, and open-minded people who support our mission, align with our values, and are keen to work at the intersection of innovative technology and social impact. Grindr is an equal-opportunity employer. More information on how we handle the personal data of applicants can be found in our Employee and Candidate Privacy Policy. #LI-Hybrid Grindr is dedicated to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base pay range for this U.S.-based role may change and depends on many factors, such as training, skills, work experience, business needs, location, and market demands. It is also subject to equity, benefits, and a company bonus program. Base Pay Range $165,000—$210,000 USD.