Senior Data Engineer, Analytics

About Grindr Grindr is an AI-native consumer technology company shaping how millions in the gay community connect, express themselves, and navigate their lives in real time. With 15M+ monthly active users across 190+ countries, we're building the digital infrastructure for gay life – from connections and companionship to health, travel, and beyond. We use machine learning and AI across our product and platform to solve complex problems at scale, including connection relevance, safety, personalization, discovery, and trust. AI is built directly into how we design, build, and ship. We develop these systems responsibly, with a strong focus on user safety and tailored for the real experiences of millions who use Grindr every day. We're a profitable, publicly traded company. Every time we outperform, we prove what's possible when mission and business align. This isn't social work - it's impact through excellence. Every dollar we earn proves what our community can build and achieve. Join us in building technology that serves our community and changes what's possible.

Grindr

The Global Gayborhood in Your Pocket™

Mobile ApplicationsSocial NetworksLocation-basedDigital MagazineAdvertisingPublisherProgrammaticSocial JusticeLGBTQDating App

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grindr.com

51-200 employees

Software Development

Los Angeles, California

2009

Public Company

35k LinkedIn followers

Raised $793M

• Have experience working with Snowflake, Airflow, dbt, or comparable data transformation and orchestration technologies.
• Have built or contributed to semantic layers using tools such as Looker, dbt Semantic Layer, or similar frameworks.
• Are interested in how LLMs and AI agents can transform the way organizations discover, understand, and analyze data.
• Enjoy taking ownership of ambiguous problems, working directly with stakeholders, and building solutions that have measurable business impact.

• 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 your daily work.

• 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
• Grindr is building the Global Gayborhood in your Pocket. With more than 15 million monthly active users, Grindr has become a fundamental part of the gay community and is charting a path to make the world more free, equal, and just.
• As a public company, we're moving into the next chapter: becoming an AI-native organization that's redefining what's possible for our community. We're embedding AI into our product and operations, moving with startup speed while operating at scale.
• Everything we do is rooted in impact for our users and outcomes for the business. This isn't social work, it’s impact through excellence. Business success is what gives us the power to serve our community and the seat at tables others can't reach. How we work is defined by Grindr Mode, our operating model that's moderately hardcore day-to-day and truly hardcore when it counts. We think like owners, drive real outcomes, create clarity through action, and push each other to go further than we thought possible.
• We’re headquartered in West Hollywood with offices in the Bay Area, Chicago, and New York. Our work extends beyond the product through Grindr for Equality, our social impact initiative that's partnered with 100+ community organizations globally to advance safety, health, and human rights for LGBTQ+ people worldwide.
• We're profitable, growing, and building a team of smart, driven people who bring different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to the work. Want to build technology at a massive scale that serves millions? Come join us!
• Grindr is an equal-opportunity employer.