Senior Data Engineer, Analytics — AI-Ready Data & Semantics

Grindr; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid medical, dental &視

401k Matching (up to 6%)

Flexible PTO & holidays

Equity for all employees

Monthly lifestyle stipend & catered on

Monthly commuter stipend

Job summary

Grindr is seeking a Senior Data Engineer, Analytics to own data for our newest product features. You will design data models, build pipelines, validate metrics, and ensure data quality for analysts, ML engineers, and AI tools like Data Daddy.

Collaborate with Data Science, ML Eng, Product, and Analytics to translate business questions into scalable data solutions and semantic layers. You will shape how data is used across Grindr, leveraging Snowflake, Airflow, and dbt to deliver reliable

Qualifications

• Experience with cross-functional collaboration across Data Science, ML Eng, and business teams.
• Strong SQL and analytics engineering fundamentals for dimensional models and metrics.
• Understanding semantic layers and reusable metric definitions.
• Experience using agentic coding tools as part of daily work.
• Proven data engineering experience turning high-volume event data into reliable production datasets.
• Experience with Snowflake, Airflow, dbt or similar ETL/Orchestration tech.
• Comfort owning ambiguous problems and delivering measurable impact.
• Interest in applying LLMs and AI agents to data discovery and analysis.
• Experience building or contributing to semantic layers using Looker or dbt Semantic Layer.

Responsibilities

• Own data for new product features: design data models, build pipelines, validate metrics, ensure data quality.
• Build AI-ready analytics powering reporting and AI tools like Data Daddy.
• Develop and maintain semantic definitions and reusable metrics across datasets.
• Partner with Data Science, ML Eng, Product, and Analytics to translate questions into scalable data solutions.
• Leverage modern engineering tools and best practices to model, test, and document data.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytics engineering

Semantic modeling

AI-native development

Data engineering

Snowflake

Airflow

dbt

LLMs & AI agents

Semantic layers

Tools

Snowflake

Airflow

dbt

Looker

Cursor

Codex

Claude Code

Job description

Grindr is seeking a Senior Data Engineer, Analytics to own data for our newest product features. You will design data models, build pipelines, validate metrics, and ensure data quality for analysts, ML engineers, and AI tools like Data Daddy.

Collaborate with Data Science, ML Eng, Product, and Analytics to translate business questions into scalable data solutions and semantic layers. You will shape how data is used across Grindr, leveraging Snowflake, Airflow, and dbt to deliver reliable