Senior Engineer (Cloud Platform & Tools)

Job Description

Software Development Engineer III (Cloud Center of excellence)

Become a better engineer by building things that help local businesses around the world thrive

Groupon’s mission is to become the daily habit in local commerce and fulfil our purpose of building strong communities through thriving small businesses by connecting people to a vibrant, global marketplace for local services, experiences and goods. In the process, we’re positively impacting the lives of millions of customers and merchants globally. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. If you want to take more ownership of your career, then you're ready to be part of Groupon.

Are you a passionate, energetic and technology enthusiast eager to work at a rapid pace with the flexibility to work across our suite of technologies? Are you are a problem solver; someone who enjoys debugging code, resolving issues, and creating solutions for common problems? Do you get a little obsessed with the details?

We are looking for a software engineer to join our Cloud Centre of Excellence team to support and evolve the design, implementation of our move to cloud initiative.

The Cloud Centre of Excellence Team will:

• Research, Evangelize, Apply, Lead, Monitor cloud adoption.
• Set architecture standards and frameworks
• Develop best practices to provide guard rails
• Engage on projects outside of building blocks if available
• Play an important role in ensuring Groupon's transition to Cloud is executed successfully and efficiently as possible.

We're a "best of both worlds" kind of company. We're big enough to have resources and scale, but small enough that a single person has a surprising amount of autonomy and can make a meaningful impact. We're curious, fun, a little intense, and kind of obsessed with helping local businesses thrive. Does that sound like a compelling place to work?

You’ll spend time on the following:

• Being a subject matter expert on Terraform and AWS CloudFormation patterns
• Providing subject matter expertise on AWS related technologies.
• Improving the Automation of our AWS account lifecycle.
• Conceive and develop checks and bounds to provide guardrails for our engineers operating in cloud.
• You will provide input into the technical aspects of our AWS/Cloud technologies, ensuring that the platform is being used to its fullest potential through designing and building standards and frameworks around our customer’s needs
• Assist our internal service building block teams to develop ‘Cloud ready’ solutions
• Work directly with our internal engineering teams to ensure that our technology infrastructure is seamlessly and effectively designed for cloud
• Provide support for AWS/Cloud related issues; Triage and fix issues reported by other teams to help with early resolution

We’re excited about you if you have:

• 5+ years of industry experience
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• AWS Professional qualifications or equivalent experience
• Expertise in either Terraform or AWS CloudFormation, Contributed to the terraform provider open source project
• Created and automated production services in AWS at scale using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
• Experience writing and reviewing code (using AWS APIs) with Python or Go.
• Clear understanding of testing methodologies, code review and mentoring other engineers
• Understand the challenges of cloud around design for failure, security and cost management.
• A DevOps mentality , Excellent written and oral communication skills

We value engineers who are:

• Customer-focused: We believe that doing what’s right for the customer is ultimately what will drive our business forward.
• Obsessed with Quality: Your Production code Just Works & scales linearly
• Team players. You believe that more can be achieved together. You listen to feedback and also provide supportive feedback to help others grow/improve.
• Fast learners: We are willing to disrupt our existing business to trial new products and solutions. You love learning how to use new technologies and then rapidly apply them to new problems.
• Pragmatic: We do things quickly to learn what our customers desire. You know when it’s appropriate to take shortcuts that don’t sacrifice quality or maintainability.
• Owners: Engineers at Groupon know how to positively impact the business.