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title: 'Senior Data Base Engineer at Groupon'
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# Senior Data Base Engineer at Groupon

- **Company:** Groupon
- **Location:** Chicago, IL
- **Posted:** 2026-06-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/groupon/jobs/4897248101

## Job description

Groupon connects 42 million customers with local experiences - restaurants, events, wellness and travel - and the million-plus merchants who deliver them. Our mission is to get people offline and into the real world at prices that make it possible. We're an AI-native company in the middle of a platform transformation, moving from a deals marketplace to an experience discovery platform that works for customers and merchants at the same time.

Groupon's data infrastructure underpins every merchant deal, every customer transaction, and every operational decision the business makes. As we scale and modernize the platform, the quality of our database design is not a backend concern — it's a competitive constraint. This role owns it.

## What you'll be doing

- 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.
- Monitor system health, troubleshoot issues, automate operational tasks, manage user access, and implement backup and recovery strategies;
- 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.
- Provide guidance on efficient resource usage and cost management
- 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.

We’re excited about you if you have the following requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or foreign equivalent degree plus 5 years of related experience
- 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.

## How we operate

Extreme Ownership: If a downstream application breaks because of a schema decision, you own the diagnosis. You don't stop at the database boundary.

Impact Obsessed: Clean design that nobody uses doesn't count. Your deliverables exist to make applications faster, data more reliable, and teams more independent.

Speed Over Comfort: Imperfect data models that are documented and iterable beat perfect ones that never ship.

## What We Offer

- Base Salary: $154,000 - $170,000 + Participation in company annual bonus plan and equity scheme.
- Onsite work model: Chicago office
- 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. [Groupon](https://www.groupon.com) 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. We encourage candidates to leverage AI tools during the hiring process where it adds value, and we’re always keen to hear how technology improves the way you work. If you’re passionate about AI or curious to explore how it can elevate your role you’ll be right at home here.

Groupon’s purpose is to build strong communities through thriving small businesses. To learn more about the world’s largest local e-commerce marketplace, click [here](https://www.groupon.com/articles/about). You can also find out more about us in the latest [Groupon new](https://www.groupon.com/articles/press)s as well as learning about our [DEI approach](https://www.groupon.com/articles/dei). If all of this sounds like something that’s a great fit for you, then click apply and join us on a mission to become the ultimate destination for local experiences and services.

Beware of Recruitment Fraud: Groupon follows a merit-based recruitment process without charging job seekers any fees. We've noticed an increase in recruitment fraud, including fake job postings and fraudulent interviews and job offers aimed at stealing personal information or money. Be cautious of individuals falsely representing Groupon's Talent Acquisition team with fake job offers. If you encounter any suspicious job offers or interview calls demanding money, recognize these as scams. Groupon is not responsible for losses from such dealings. For legitimate job openings (and a sneak peek into life at Groupon), always check our official career website at [Groupon Careers](https://www.grouponcareers.com/)

## About Groupon

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Groupon operates a global marketplace that connects consumers with local experiences, services, and goods, using AI-driven technology to match supply and demand.
- **Entity Type**: Public (Ticker: GRPN on Nasdaq)
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Founded**: 2008
- **Founders**: Andrew Mason, Brad Keywell, Eric Lefkofsky

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Local commerce marketplace / e-commerce / digital advertising
- Target customers: B2C (consumers seeking local experiences, travel, and goods) and B2B/SMB (local merchants seeking customers and growth).
- Mission or purpose statement: "We get people offline through quality local experiences at great value."

## Products & Services
- **Groupon Marketplace (Core Platform)**: A web and mobile platform offering daily deals, vouchers, and bookable experiences for restaurants, travel, activities, beauty, and goods. This is a two-sided marketplace.
- **Groupon Merchant Platform (B2B)**: Tools for local businesses to list offers, manage inventory, schedule appointments, and process payments, designed to help them attract new customers and manage operations.
- **Groupon+**: A feature that allows users to earn cashback directly on credit cards for purchases at partner merchants, streamlining the deal redemption process.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: As of early 2025, Groupon's market capitalization is roughly $400–800 million USD, reflecting a significant decline from its peak but steadying during a turnaround.
- **Key Metric (Revenue/User Base)**: Annual revenue for 2024 was approximately $485 million USD. The company serves tens of millions of active customers globally.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Given its public status, major institutional shareholders include hedge funds and asset managers. Key partners include thousands of local merchants in over a dozen countries (USA, Canada, Europe, Middle East).
- **Growth Signals**: Currently in a "transformation" phase, shifting from a deal-a-day model to a more curated, AI-driven marketplace. Growing AI-generated codebase (over 50% of code is AI-generated) and adopting agentic-first development.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale and Local Supply**: A massive, pre-existing network of millions of local merchants across multiple geographies, providing a supply moat that is difficult to replicate.
- **AI-Native Operating Model**: Groupon is aggressively transforming into an "AI-native company," using AI for supply demand matching, coding (agentic development), and internal operations, aiming to out-execute competitors through automation and efficiency.
- **Proven Brand Recognition**: Despite past struggles, Groupon remains a globally recognized brand for "deals" and local discovery, providing a level of consumer trust that new entrants lack.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Native Transformation**: The entire company is restructuring around AI. Engineering teams use agentic-first development, and all employees are expected to leverage AI tools to remove low-value work.
- **Product-Led Growth**: Shifting focus from a sales-driven model to a product-led one, where better matching and curation through AI drives natural user acquisition and conversion.
- **Lean & Disciplined Operating Model**: A deliberate "do more with less" philosophy. The company is simplifying its tech stack, reducing complexity in its operations, and focusing only on projects that move core metrics.
- **Global Local Focus**: Prioritizing the massive, complex, and underserved local commerce market.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: "Extreme Ownership," "Speed Over Comfort," "Impact Obsessed," "Simplify to Scale," and "Disciplined." The pace is described as fast, real, and high-standard.
- **Work Environment**: A hybrid model with defined in-office days for collaboration and decision-making, with a subset of roles approved for fully remote work. Modern offices in central locations.
- **Career Growth & Impact**: A company in active transformation means employees can have immediate, visible impact on the business. Promotion is based on performance, not politics.
- **Notable Perks & Benefits**: Competitive compensation, purpose-driven work (helping local businesses), opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI tech, internal recognition programs, and anniversary milestone rewards. Benefits vary by location.
- **Engineering Culture**: Engineers build, orchestrate AI agents, and work on genuinely hard problems in local commerce. Over 50% of code is AI-generated, and the engineering culture is focused on building and shipping quickly.

## Sources
1. [Groupon Company Information](https://www.grouponcareers.com/why-groupon)
2. [Groupon Careers / Our Teams](https://www.grouponcareers.com/our-teams)
3. [Groupon Candidate FAQs & Work Policy](https://www.grouponcareers.com/candidate-faqs)
4. [Groupon LinkedIn](https://in.linkedin.com/company/groupon)
5. [Groupon Job Listings](http://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/groupon)

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