Data Engineer III, Growth & Discovery
Data Engineer III, Growth & Discovery
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Job Description
Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Bangalore India and will be expected to comply with their teams hybrid work schedule requirements.
Who We Are:
Wayfair runs the largest custom e-commerce large parcel network in the United States approximately 1.6 million square meters of logistics space. The nature of the network is inherently a highly variable ecosystem that requires flexible reliable and resilient systems to operate efficiently.
We are looking for a passionate Backend Software Engineer to join the Fulfillment Optimization team. This team builds the platforms that determine how customer orders are fulfilled optimizing for Wayfair profitability and customer delight. A big part of our work revolves around enhancing and scaling customer-facing platforms that provide fulfillment information on our websites starting at the top of the customer funnel on the search pages all the way through orders being delivered. Throughout this customer journey we are responsible for maintaining an accurate representation of our dynamic supply chain determining how different products will fit into boxes predicting how these boxes will flow through warehouses and trucks and ultimately surfacing the information our customers need to inform their decision and the details our suppliers and carriers require to successfully execute on the promises made to our customers. We do all of this in milliseconds thousands of times per second.
About the Role:
As a Data Engineer you will be part of the Data Engineering team with this role being inherently multi-functional and the ideal candidate will work with Data Scientist Analysts Application teams across the company as well as all other Data Engineering squads at Wayfair. We are looking for someone with a love for data understanding requirements clearly and the ability to iterate quickly. Successful candidates will have strong engineering skills and communication and a belief that data-driven processes lead to phenomenal products.
What youll do:
- Build and launch data pipelines and data products focussed on SMART Org.
- Helping teams push the boundaries of insights creating new product features using data and powering machine learning models.
- Build cross-functional relationships to understand data needs build key metrics and standardize their usage across the organization.
- Utilize current and leading edge technologies in software engineering big data streaming and cloud infrastructure
What Youll Need:
- 6 years relevant work experience in the Data Engineering field with web scale data sets.
- Bachelor/Master degree in Computer Science or related technical subject area or equivalent combination of education
- Demonstrated strength in data modeling ETL development and data lake architecture.
- Data Warehousing Experience with Big Data Technologies (Hadoop Spark Hive Presto Airflow etc.).
- Coding proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Python Scala etc)
- Experience building/operating highly available distributed systems of data extraction ingestion and processing and query performance tuning skills of large data sets.
- Industry experience as a Big Data Engineer and working along cross functional teams such as Software Engineering Analytics Data Science with a track record of manipulating processing and extracting value from large datasets.
- Strong business acumen. Experience leading large-scale data warehousing and analytics projects including using GCP technologies Big Query Dataproc GCS Cloud Composer Dataflow or related big data technologies in other cloud platforms like AWS Azure etc.
- Be a team player and introduce/follow the best practices on the data engineering space.
- Ability to effectively communicate (both written and verbally) technical information and the results of engineering design at all levels of the organization.
Good to have :
- Understanding of NoSQL Database exposure and Pub-Sub architecture setup.
- Familiarity with Bl tools like Looker Tableau AtScale PowerBI or any similar tools.
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
