Senior Data Engineer

Hornet ( Queer Networks ) is the worlds leading queer tech company providing a digital home for gay men to safely connect with each other anytime anywhere. Amplifying the radical affirmative power of the queer community with cutting-edge technology Queer Networks serves the LGBTQ community with products such as the gay chat app Hornet with over 100 million users worldwide the gay live-streaming app Hornet Live and HornetX a map-based web app for gay guys. Our diverse team spans the world bringing together various perspectives and incredible talent.

Do you want to join Hornet We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer at Hornet starting immediately.

Your Tasks

In this role you will be the owner of Hornets raw data layer ensuring that downstream Analytics & AI applications can build on a consistent and trustworthy foundation. You will design and maintain the pipelines that bring our user product and monetization data into BigQuery while enforcing standards that guarantee quality scalability and reliability.

• Own the ingestion of raw data from Firebase back-end / front-end systems and external partners into BigQuery.
• Design build and maintain robust ETL / ELT pipelines that are efficient evolvable and scalable to TB-scale workloads.
• Implement data contracts schema enforcement and quality checks at the ingestion layer to prevent downstream issues.
• Proactively monitor and debug pipelines ensuring resilient idempotent ingestion processes.
• Optimize data storage and query performance in BigQuery balancing cost efficiency and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate new data sources and align pipeline development with analytics needs.
• Contribute to engineering best practices documenting processes reviewing code and mentoring colleagues where appropriate.
• Partner with the AI Engineer on aligning ingestion with broader architectural standards and long-term infrastructure goals.

Your Profile & Experience

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Our Benefits

Do you want to become a part of Hornet To apply please submit your resume. We do not ask for cover letters but we give bonus points to candidates who can articulate their passion for our mission in a concise (1-2 sentence) statement. We are looking forward to hearing from you! Do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience perspectives and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our team members and a better product for our users and community.

Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

Apache Hive,S3,Hadoop,Redshift,Spark,AWS,Apache Pig,NoSQL,Big Data,Data Warehouse,Kafka,Scala

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1