DataBaseEngineer

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 - Design and maintain database management systems end-to-end: conceptual model, logical schema, capacity planning, data loading, data maintenance, and security policy - Translate business requirements from product, engineering, and systems teams into precise data models — table structures, element attributes, and relational logic that are defensible and production-ready - Write complex programs and derive logical processes on technical platforms; build the screens, reports, and components that sit on top of them - Contribute to UI design and business application prototypes, bridging the gap between data layer and user-facing experience - Evaluate, install, and configure database management systems — and document your design decisions so the next engineer doesn't have to reverse-engineer them - Participate in QA and develop test application code in client-server environments - Determine how data should be stored, how tables relate to one another, and how fields interact — and defend those decisions when challenged - At senior levels: assess clients' existing data structures and storage mechanisms, and determine what belongs in the schema versus what doesn't What success looks like Day 30: You've mapped the existing schema,