Site Reliability Engineer, Data Foundations 

Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Toronto, CAN and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements.

 

Wayfair.com is a leader in the e-commerce space for all things home. Our Data Foundations team is looking for smart, passionate and curious people who are excited to help us scale, support and engineer our distributed and streaming infrastructure. With the broad reach of the technologies we are using, you will have the opportunity to grow your network and skills by being exposed to new people and ideas who work on a diverse set of cutting-edge technologies. 

As an Engineer, you will join one of our core platform teams as a key contributor to the development and maintenance of our foundational shared data systems. In this hands-on role, you’ll be able to see how your work powers the engineering, analytics and the platforms team to do their daily jobs more effectively.

What You’ll Do:

• Monitors Production environment, provides support for incidents/alerts, provides technical guidance to junior engineers for resolving issues.
• Takes on complex problems, designs and implements appropriate and scalable solutions
• Delivers solutions with limited supervision and is able to autonomously overcome roadblocks
• Participates in EDI consultations, platform improvements, and capacity planning
• Demonstrates technical ownership, gives accurate estimates of work and completes multi-week/month scoped initiatives which are impactful to the team and the business 
• Work closely with our team to understand their day to day issues and recommend automated solutions to solve their problems
• Follow best practices in troubleshooting methodology to investigate complex problems
• Work with minimal supervision and have a self-starter approach towards working on a variety of technologies
• Participates in decision-making around architecture and roadmaps
• Proposes ideas for technical improvements scoped at the team level
• Work with an eye towards automation and efficiency, and look for opportunities to streamline processes and work
• Follow best practices in documentation for all work completed, including updating existing, and writing new
• Always use data to lead decisions and back up your assertions
• Lead and run Subject Matter Expert programs for EDI to spread the knowledge to our large and diverse user base
• Participate in an on call rotation which is distributed across the team
• Communicate clearly and effectively with both internal and external stakeholders to keep all parties informed and up to speed on initiatives and projects

What You Have:

• 2+ years of SRE and/or SWE experience while thinking like a data engineer
• Strong experience in working with SQL, Terraform, Puppet, Git 
• Experience with working with an enterprise cloud provider such as GCP (especially PubSub) or with Azure, AWS is a plus
• Strong programming skills: Ideally in Python or Java
• Experience working with both Linux and Windows

• Strong Agile SDLC background
• Experience with large scale enterprise environments in geographically diverse locations

 

Software Engineer, Storefront Engineering

 

Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Boston, MA and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements.

 

Who We Are:At Wayfair we are well on the way to becoming the world’s number one, online destination for all things home. Our core belief is that everyone should live in a home they love. We make this possible by ensuring our 24 million customers have all the technology and innovation they need at their fingertips, to give them access to our more than 33 million products which are provided by our 23,000 awesome global suppliers. 

In the Storefront team, we are the first impression of a  customer’s shopping experience; we own the design and implementation of the customer-facing website. We partner with Product, Experience Design, Analytics and business leaders across Wayfair; our Storefront Engineering teams ensure that we’re building technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, measurable ways.  

If you love to solve real business problems at scale, in a fast-paced, high growth and agile environment, this is the role for you!

Interested in learning more about Wayfair’s Engineering community? 

• Check out our Wayfair Tech Blog: https://www.aboutwayfair.com/careers/tech-blog. 
• Aanan Contractor is the Director for Storefront 

What You’ll Do:

• Flex your strength and knowledge on Java, DevOps, and microservice development.
• Ensure services are built to industry best practices, including observability, architectural patterns, and inter-team dependency mechanisms (like SLOs)
• Work closely with architects and other teams across Storefront to breakdown an existing PHP monolith into well defined Java Microservices with clean boundaries and clear API contracts
• Work in the critical domain, designing & building a platform that interfaces with many different systems within and outside Wayfair and partner globally.
• Write code to implement high-quality, scalable, future-proof services that will have effective system boundaries and will support long-term vision & strategy
• Conduct technical debate across an entire platform and help come to durable documented conclusions
• Drive high-impact architectural solutions  and hands-on development, including inception, design, execution, and delivery following good design and coding practices
• Obsessively focus on production readiness for the team including testing, monitoring, deployment, documentation, and proactive troubleshooting
• Identify risks and gaps in technical approaches and propose solutions to meet the department's technical vision
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and peer engineering teams to define project requirements and execution plans

We Are A Match Because You Have:

• 2+ years of experience in engineering, eComm domain expertise is a plus
• Hands-on experience driving software transformations within high-growth environments at scale 
• Experienced in architecting and building large-scale, cloud-based, and event-driven systems across various projects
• Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience driving teams forward and ability to influence results
• Experience with GCP target cloud platform, or experience with AWS/Azure at scale
• Experienced in distributed microservice architectures with well architected domain boundaries
• Experience with high volume async messaging architectures
• Experience in large scale relational and NoSQL style data stores
• Common open source platforms, tools and framework knowledge, eg: Kafka, Kubernetes, Containerization, Java microservices, GraphQL APIs, Aerospike etc

Why You’ll Love Wayfair:

• Time Off:
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Health & Wellness:
• Full Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA/FSA)
• Life Insurance
• Disability Protection (Short Term & Long Term Disability) 
• Global Wellbeing: Gym/Fitness discounts (including US Peloton, Global ClassPass, and various regional gym memberships)
• Mental Health Support (Global Mental Health, Global Wayhealthy Recordings)
• Caregiver Services
• Financial Growth & Security:
• 401K Matching (Employee Matching Program)
• Tuition Reimbursement 
• Financial Health Education (Knowledge of Financial Education - KOFE)
• Tax Advantaged Accounts
• Family Support:
• Family Planning Support
• Parental Leave
• Global Surrogacy & Adoption Policy
• Professional Development & Recognition:
• Rewards & Recognition 
• Global Employee Anniversary Awards 
• Paid Volunteer Work 
• Unique Perks:
• Employee Discount 
• U.S. Bluebikes Membership
• Global Pod Outings
• Work/Life Balance:
• Emphasizing a supportive & flexible work environment that encourages a balance between personal and professional commitments 

We are looking forward to your application!

Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities

Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accomodations for Applicants form.

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About Wayfair Inc.Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or Berlin, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.

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