Groupon’s Platform Data Engineering team is looking for a Sr. Staff Engineer to help shape data strategy at Groupon and in turn bring data architecture to the next level of scalability and reliability.
This is the most senior technical role in our data org. The successful candidate will work with the business and engineering leadership to drive data strategy. S/he will be responsible for driving decision making on how we do collection and storage of data, the tools and tech behind transport and transformation as well as presentation and visualisation. Finally this person will play a leading role in how we define data governance processes.
The role involves establishing best practices for design and implementation of the tools for real-time and batch distributed data processing, petabyte scale analysis of web/mobile clickstream as well as structured transactional data.
As a key member of an elite team, your efforts will make direct impact on the experiences of millions of customers and establish Groupon Data platform as a standard of the world-class engineering.
Key responsibilities:
Define the roadmap and lead Groupon’s Data Platform migration to the cloud infrastructure
Drive Data Platform geo-redundancy to the completion
Provide guidance and lead implementation of Data Compliance standards (GDPR, SOX, PII)
Help bring our end-to-end data pipelines to the next level of scalability and reliability
Make company-wide decisions on using open-source technologies for our large-scale data infrastructure
Establish best practices for Data Engineering and share knowledge/experience across the company
Groupon provides a global marketplace where people can buy just about anything, anywhere, anytime. We’re enabling real-time commerce across an expanding range of categories including local businesses, travel destinations, consumer products, and live or lively events. At the same time, we are providing advertising options and tools that merchants can use to grow and manage their businesses. Culturally, we believe that great people make great companies and that starting with the customer and working backward moves us forward. Community matters to us on an internal, local and global scale—it’s fundamental to our company’s growth and to the well-being of the world at large. We also value self-awareness, candor, lunch and WiFi. If we match with you, please apply to join us.