Groupon

Groupon

Senior Data Base Engineer

Chicago (35 W · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$154k-$170kDetected 28 days ago
RedisBigQueryLinuxGrafanaSparkData EngineeringRecruitingNetwork Monitoring

About the role

  • Groupon's data infrastructure underpins every merchant deal, every customer transaction, and every operational decision the business makes.
  • You don't stop at the database boundary.
  • Your deliverables exist to make applications faster, data more reliable, and teams more independent.

Responsibilities

  • You will Deploy, configure, and manage a variety of applications, databases, and big data platforms (e.g., BigQuery, Bigtable, Hadoop, Google Dataproc, Redis, Teradata, Keboola), ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability.
  • Partner with data engineering and analytics teams to gather requirements, design data schemas, and support data pipeline development.
  • Enable infrastructure provisioning to support scalable data pipelines and analytics solutions.
  • Optimize system performance and costs across data platforms while enforcing data governance, security policies, and data integrity standards
  • Develop and maintain automation scripts for provisioning, monitoring, and alerting.
  • Extreme Ownership: If a downstream application breaks because of a schema decision, you own the diagnosis.
  • Impact Obsessed: Clean design that nobody uses doesn't count.
  • Clean design that nobody uses doesn't count.
  • Groupon is an AI-First Company We're committed to building smarter, faster, and more innovative ways of working and AI plays a key role in how we get there.
  • Groupon's purpose is to build strong communities through thriving small businesses.

Requirements

  • Any level of experience with Develop and maintain big data infrastructure using Hadoop ecosystems such as Cloudera distribution, ensuring effective data storage and processing with Hive, Spark, and Sqoop
  • Any level of experience with Configure and optimize servers running on Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL and Ubuntu, to ensure high availability and optimal system performance
  • Any level of experience with Oversee Redis database administration, including sharding, cluster setup, scaling, rebalancing, and implementing SSL for data security
  • Any level of experience with Monitor and troubleshoot systems using tools like Kibana, Grafana, Nagios, and Ganglia to ensure infrastructure reliability and scalability.
  • We're excited about you if you have the following requirements:

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or foreign equivalent degree plus 5 years of related experience

Skills

  • You don't stop at
  • the database boundary.

Compensation

  • $154,000 - $170,000 + Participation in company annual bonus plan and equity scheme.
  • Onsite work model: Chicago office

Benefits

  • Base Salary: $154,000 - $170,000 + Participation in company annual bonus plan and equity scheme.
  • Benefits: Starting the 1st of the month after your start date: Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, FSAs, EAP, 401(k) match, ESPP, and more.
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