Software Engineer II, Platforms
Software Engineer II, Platforms
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Job Description
Who We Are:
Wayfair is a leader in the e-commerce space for all things home. We live and breathe modern technologies. Were looking for smart logical thinkers who can advocate for systems and designs that work at scale but still retain the startup feel. We pride ourselves on scrappy innovation - getting real working solutions deployed quickly and iterating based on data.
Our Site Reliability Engineering team is looking for experienced engineers who have a mind for cloud native design stability and an understanding of SRE best practices - and some ideas about what could be better! We work across our Technology organization to ensure our platforms and services are ready for prime time by contributing to both the platform and software code bases.
What Youll Do:
- As a Software Engineer (SRE) you will join our team to help grow our systems into best-in-class for efficiency stability observability velocity and scale in the e-commerce space engage with the product and engineering team from Day 1 to design build and maintain the system / software proactively
- Influence the design and architecture of Wayfair system as part of Cloud Enablement journey; collaborate with development teams to design scalable and reliable systems considering aspects such as fault tolerance availability and performance
- Influence the design and architecture of Wayfair system as part of Cloud Enablement journey; collaborate with development teams to design scalable and reliable systems considering aspects such as fault tolerance availability and performance
- Work with both software engineers and fellow Platform Engineers to optimize and develop repeatable systems for the two sides to leverage each other. Theres a wide range of opportunities to both guide the broad conversation and dive into the nuance of our code & architecture
- Help service owners build realistic SLOs set SLAs and error budgets and ensure production services have reliability built into their design
Even after self-healing and automation done by you if EXTREME complex issues arise get involved into troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of issues across the stacks hardware software database network and so on - Develop and maintain tools and frameworks for automating the deployment CI/CD pipeline configuration and management of software systems. Automate repetitive tasks to increase efficiency and reduce human error
- Mentor new hires and other engineers by example tech talks paired programming and other avenues to increase technical efficiency across the organization.
What Youll Need:
- 3 years experience working as a Software Engineer in a Platform role or software development with an understanding of cloud infrastructure
- Experience with cloud platforms GCP AWS Azure and containerization technologies (e.g. Docker Kubernetes)
- Experience with server-side software engineering (Java Go Perl Python etc)
- Design experience with distributed systems microservices architecture and related technologies
- Strong understanding of monitoring and alerting with a focus on performance monitoring and tracing instrumentation & SLI/SLO/SLAs
- Experience decoupling monolith services a plus
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (e.g. Git).
- Excellent communication skills across engineers product managers and business stakeholders alike
Nice To Have:
- Passion for leading a large cross-cutting technical initiative to delivery cross-functional consensus building and influencing design decisions
- Ample experience gathering and balancing requirements from technical and business stakeholders and reaching consensus on prioritization
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading code reviews
About Wayfair Inc.
Wayfair is one of the worlds largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world were 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 youre looking for rapid growth constant learning and dynamic challenges then youll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.
No matter who you are Wayfair is a place you can call home. Were a community of innovators risk-takers and trailblazers who celebrate our differences and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger smarter and well-positioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees customers community and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair and world for all. Every voice every perspective matters. Thats why were proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color ethnicity ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship status marital status disability gender identity gender expression veteran status genetic information or any other legally protected characteristic.
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Employment Type
Full Time
