Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Groupon

Groupon is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the performance, availability, and resilience of its platforms. The role involves leading initiatives to redefine operational excellence and collaborating with teams to implement cutting-edge technologies. This is an opportunity to shape the future of platform reliability. Role Involves:

• Architecting and maintaining fault-tolerant systems with uptime SLAs of 99.9% or higher.
• Driving automation in infrastructure management and deployment using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.
• Creating and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for reliable software delivery.
• Building comprehensive observability solutions.
• Collaborating to define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Leading incident response and root cause analysis.
• Designing and executing performance testing and scalability strategies.
• Mentoring junior engineers.
• Guiding architectural decisions.

Requirements:

• 10+ years in systems engineering, with 5+ years in SRE or DevOps roles.
• Expertise in cloud platforms (GCP, AWS) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Proficiency in programming languages like Python, Go, and Bash.
• Advanced knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, and security principles.
• Proven track record of managing high-availability systems.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.

What Groupon Offers:

• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies.
• Collaborative and innovative work culture.
• Professional growth and leadership development pathways.
• Chance to leave a lasting impact.