Site Reliability & Software Engineer II, Platforms
Site Reliability & Software Engineer II, Platforms
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Job Description
Who We Are:
Wayfair leads e-commerce for all things home driven by modern tech. We seek sharp thinkers who design scalable systems while keeping a startup mindset. Our culture values fast data-driven innovation.
The Wayfair Operations Center team is looking for experienced engineers skilled in cloud-native design legacy maintenance and SRE best practicesplus ideas for improvement! We collaborate across our Technology organization to ensure platforms and services are production-ready contributing to both platform and software codebases.
What Youll Do:
- As a Site Reliability Engineer 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 our Cloud Enablement journey while maintaining our critical pieces of legacy tools; collaborate with development teams to design scalable and reliable systems considering aspects such as fault tolerance availability and performance.
- Be the bridge between software engineers and platform engineers to develop and optimize repeatable systems so each side can 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 provide production support and creatively solve challenging engineering problems across our stack. - Participate in the teams on-call rotation.
- Automate repetitive tasks to increase efficiency and reduce human error.
- Mentor new hires and other engineers by example. Opportunities to lead tech talks paired programming sessions and more to increase technical efficiency across the organization.
What Youll Need:
- 3 years experience working in DevOps or SRE 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 (Python Go Java BASH 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.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (e.g. Buildkite Github Actions Gitlab CI/CD).
- Knowledge of configuration management tools (e.g. Puppet Ansible Chef Terraform).
- Excellent communication skills across engineers product managers and business stakeholders alike.
- 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.
Proven track record decoupling monolith services is a plus.
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
