Staff Data Engineer

This is a hybrid role based in our Chicago office that will require your presence in the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays. What's so interesting about this role? The big data sector is growing rapidly at Grindr and we're looking for a staff-level Data Engineer skilled in the latest real-time streaming technologies, striving for high quality and reliability with test-driven development (TDD), automation, and continuous delivery. Beyond the data pipeline, you will be crucial in realizing data-driven products and features and in shaping the future of Grindr. In this role, you will work with our product teams to construct models and APIs for new features, conduct analyses to enhance engagement in existing features, and enable our business with real-time insights to drive growth in market share, engagement, and revenue. We see 1 trillion events per year and process 10TB of data daily. What's the job? - Design, develop and deliver data products to production, in compliance with our internal data governance, and considering the security and scalability of our system. - Solve highly complex and broad technical issues. - Have significant influence on the company's long-term analytical goals and data architecture. - Define and expand our internal standards for style, maintenance, and best practices for a high-scale data platform. - Provide mentorship to all members of your team to foster their growth in technical responsibilities. - Propose ideas to enhance the scale, performance, and capabilities of the Data Platform. - Transition from implementation to the ownership of real-time and batch processing and data governance and policies. - Maintain and enforce the business contracts pertaining to how data should be represented and stored. - Keep up-to-date with new technologies through research and development and prototyping to consistently enhance our big data architectures and systems. - Implement ETL processes and transfer data between systems such as S3, Snowflake, Kafka, and Spark. - Collaborate closely with our Data Scientists, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and Product Managers to ensure software meets user requirements and is of high quality. What we'd love about you - 7+ years of experience working with data at scale, including roles in data engineering, business intelligence, data science, or a related field. - 7 or more years of experience using Python. - Proficiency in big data technologies (Snowflake, Airflow, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Spark, pySpark). - Significant experience with relational databases and query authoring (SQL) in Snowflake or other distributed databases. - Experience with agile engineering practices such as TDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration, automated testing, and deployment. - Experience building stream-processing systems, using solutions like Kafka, Storm, or Spark-Streaming. - Experience with dimensional data modeling and schema design in data warehouses. - Familiarity with ETL (managing high-quality reliable ETL pipelines). - Familiarity with legal compliance, data management tools, data classification, and retention. What you'll love about us - Mission and Impact: Grindr is the global leader in LGBTQ social networking services. Your role will profoundly impact the lives of millions of LGBTQ people worldwide. - Family Insurance: Coverage for health, dental, and vision insurance premiums for you and partial coverage for your dependents. - Retirement Savings: A generous 401K plan with a 6% match and immediate vesting in the US. - Compensation: Competitive industry compensation with eligibility for company bonus and equity programs. - Additional Benefits: Flexible vacation policy, monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, and food, a one-time home-office setup stipend, and company-sponsored events. About Grindr Grindr is the world’s largest dating app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people. We’re proud to serve as an integral part of the global LGBTQ community, and our mission is to empower our users to connect, express themselves, and discover the queer world around them. Our next evolution is underway as a newly public company looking to expand and continue to create meaningful experiences for our users. From social issues to original content, we're embracing new paths that make an impact and leverage the latest tech stacks while striving for engineering excellence. Grindr is an equal-opportunity employer. To learn more about how we handle the personal data of applicants, please refer to our Employee and Candidate Privacy Policy. Please note, Grindr is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base pay range provided is for the U.S. and is not applicable to locations outside of the U.S. Actual base pay depends on factors such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, location, and market demands. This range may change and can be modified in the future.