Senior Platform Engineer - CI/CD & AI Automation (AI-first)

Groupon is undergoing a critical platform transformation, modernizing its core developer experience and CI/CD stack at scale. This high-impact role is central to the shift, focusing on migrating hundreds of repositories from Jenkins to GitHub Actions and embedding an AI-First approach into our platform engineering practices. You will be a key owner and technical leader, building the reliable, observable, and cost-efficient pipelines that thousands of engineers rely on daily to accelerate feature delivery and business impact. This is a globally distributed, high-ownership role offering significant autonomy., * Platform Transformation: Lead the design, planning, and execution of the Jenkins-to-GitHub Actions migration across a large portfolio of microservices.

• Pipeline Engineering: Design and optimize high-performance, secure, and observable CI/CD workflows across GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Kubernetes environments.
• AI-First Automation: Drive an AI-First workflow by leveraging tools (e.g., Copilot, code generation) to eliminate infrastructure toil, accelerate development, and analyze pipeline failures.
• Core Automation: Develop robust platform automation (e.g., Python, Go, Bash) to improve build efficiency, artifact caching, reliability, and repository hygiene.
• Security & Compliance: Harden CI/CD infrastructure with robust controls for secrets management, RBAC, audit logging, and secure runner design.
• Observability: Implement and enhance CI/CD observability using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry to provide deep insights into performance and reliability.
• Technical Leadership: Mentor engineers and partner across Cloud, Security, and Developer Experience teams to define and evolve our end-to-end delivery platform architecture., * Outcome 1: Successfully delivered the migration of a defined, critical cohort of repositories to the new GitHub Actions standard.
• Outcome 2: Reduced average build times and deployment friction for targeted services by a measurable percentage ($>15%$ target).
• Outcome 3: Implemented core automation and observability that demonstrably reduces support load for the CICDO team.
• Outcome 4: Become a trusted technical voice, leading the adoption of AI-First principles within the platform engineering organization.

We Are Interested In

• Ownership Mentality: The ability to take a problem end-to-end and own the solution and its outcomes, even amidst ambiguity.
• Practical Transformation: Engineers who thrive on moving complex, real-world systems to a modern, scalable standard.
• AI-First Mindset: A genuine belief in using AI as a force multiplier to eliminate toil and focus on high-leverage engineering problems.

Do you have experience in Terraform?, * 5+ years of dedicated experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure roles.

• Deep expertise building, scaling, and migrating CI/CD systems, with strong practical experience in Jenkins and/or GitHub Actions.
• Expertise in scripting and automation (Python, Go, or Bash).
• Solid understanding of container technologies, Kubernetes, and cloud build systems.
• Proven experience leveraging AI tooling (e.g., Claude Code, code analysis) to meaningfully increase developer output and optimize platform work.
• Excellent communication and ability to drive technical decisions across multiple platform and product teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience implementing or managing observability for CI/CD using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
• Background in CI/CD security, secrets management, and compliance controls (e.g., using GitHub Enterprise features).
• Experience integrating AI tools directly into pipelines for functions like security scanning or optimization.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Helm for managing CI/CD infrastructure.

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.