SDE III - Kafka/Mbus

Groupon is a marketplace where customers discover new experiences and services everyday and local businesses thrive. To date we have worked with over a million merchant partners worldwide, connecting over 16 million customers with deals across various categories. In a world often dominated by e-commerce giants, we stand out as one of the few platforms uniquely committed to helping local businesses succeed on a performance basis.

Groupon is on a radical journey to transform our business with relentless pursuit of results. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. The impact here can be immediate due to our scale and the speed of our transformation. We're a "best of both worlds" kind of company. We're big enough to have the resources and scale, but small enough that a single person has a surprising amount of autonomy and can make a meaningful impact.

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

Are you a passionate, energetic technology enthusiast eager to work at a rapid pace with the flexibility to work across a broad tech stack?

Groupon is an experiences marketplace that brings people more ways to get the most out of their city or wherever they may be. By enabling real-time mobile commerce across local businesses, live events, and travel destinations, Groupon helps people find and discover experiences––big and small, new and familiar––that make for a full, fun, and rewarding life. Groupon helps local businesses grow and strengthen customer relationships––resulting in strong, vibrant communities. With employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking, and celebrates success. Our culture encourages employees to embrace change, adapt to new circumstances, and find creative solutions to the challenges we face. Does that sound like a great way to grow your career? Let’s get into the details:

We are looking for a DevOps engineer who can help in IST Timezone.  This person will own the deployment of Groupon’s Kafka & MBus platform, and troubleshoot production issues.

Groupon’s Platform team, consisting of 7 departments, creates innovative solutions, keeps the Lights On, and helps migrate services between cloud providers.  This particular department has 3 team members. One of them is leaving and we are back filling this position.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer who can look after the below responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain DevOps pipelines for the integration of software components in diverse environments

• Manage messaging systems in Groupon.

• Design and implement Infrastructure monitoring, alerting, and self-heal mechanisms

• Work in Agile, test-driven development model

• Work with development teams to implement data streaming pipelines.

• Perform code reviews and deployments

• Be familiar with using GitHub.

• Exceptional communication skills to address multiple internal and external stakeholders

• Troubleshoot, and profile existing/new implementations for improvements

• Create technical documentation/ user guides for implemented solutions

• Excellent communication skills and teamwork are a must
   

Preferred Experience

• 3+ years experience in Designing and Configuring Infrastructure: Ability to design, implement, configure and maintain infrastructure, including brokers, topics, partitions, clusters, retention policies, and replication factors.

• Data Streaming Solutions: Experience in building and maintaining real-time data streaming solutions using Kafka, including data ingestion, transformation, and processing.

• Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Expertise in monitoring clusters, identifying performance bottlenecks, troubleshooting issues, and implementing proactive measures to ensure high availability.

• Expertise with Coding/Scripting in one or more Python, Shell, Powershell

• Should be Familiar with the Software Build process (Compilation of code with GNU Make, CMake, Visual Studio, etc.)

• Proficient with container frameworks: Docker, Docker-compose

• Strong expertise in at least one of Linux packaging ecosystems - specifically, Debian, RPM, APT, YUM – in one or more Linux distributions – Ubuntu, CentOS, SUSE Linux

• Ability to contribute to code reviews

• Ability to work in a cross-functional, collaborative environment

• Security Implementation: Knowledge of security features, such as authentication, authorization, and encryption, to ensure secure data flow and access control.

• Exposure to Kubernetes, Ansible, and Terraform is a definite plus.

• Exposure to cloud technologies like AWS, GCP

• Active participation in open-source projects is a definite plus

• Expertise in setting up the monitoring at the enterprise level using Prometheus and Grafana is a definite plus.

Beware of Fraudulent Offers

We would like to bring to your notice that Groupon follows a merit-based employee recruitment practice with extensive screening steps. Groupon does not charge/accept any amount or security deposit from job seekers during the recruitment process. It was observed that there has been an increase in recruitment fraud involving scammers who post fraudulent job openings, or who contact job-seekers with fake job offers. These individuals sometimes even conduct fraudulent interviews with an attempt to obtain personal information or money from the applicants. We have also noticed that certain individuals claiming to be from the Groupon Talent Acquisition function are contacting prospective candidates pretending to represent Groupon with job offers. In case you or any candidate receives any unsolicited or fraudulent communication regarding a job offer or an interview call against payment of money, please stay alert and recognize it as a scam. We are not liable for any loss or damage incurred as a result of dealing with such entities. To prevent falling victim to the same, please visit grouponcareers.com to verify the job opening. All our genuine job openings are posted on the official Groupon careers website. 

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. You can also find out more about us in the latest Groupon news as well as learning about our DEI approach. 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 grouponcareers.com.