Associate Director of Engineering, Cloud Platforms Compute
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Posted on:
29-08-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
An Important Note about Wayfairs In-Office Policy and Salary:
Please note that this is a hybrid role based in Toronto CAN and will require you to work in the office on Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays.
The salary range for this position is $252852 - $267300 per year. The base salary offered may vary depending on location job-related knowledge skills and experience. Restricted stock units will also be provided as part of the compensation package.
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 an experienced Platform Engineering Manager to lead our Cloud Platform Compute teams at Wayfair. This role is responsible for driving GCP adoption across Wayfair owning the compute infrastructure cloud lifecycle management and service integration platforms that power our global e-commerce operations. Youll oversee the provisioning and usage of GCP services at Wayfair while enabling engineering teams to build and deploy at scale.
What Youll Do
- Lead a team of 20 talented platform engineers across multiple engineering teams including managing experienced engineering managers
- Drive GCP adoption and cloud platform strategy across Wayfairs engineering organization
- Architect and implement large-scale infrastructure migrations and platform modernization initiatives
- Own compute platform evolution built on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and cloud-native technologies
- Oversee cloud service provisioning lifecycle management and service integration across GCP
- Partner with engineering teams to provide self-service cloud platform capabilities that accelerate development velocity
- Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to develop platform capabilities that enable rapid application development and deployment
- Build and maintain robust infrastructure lifecycle management using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Foster a culture of operational excellence automation and continuous improvement across cloud platforms
What Youll Need
- 10 years of experience in platform engineering/SRE roles using object-oriented languages (Python Golang etc)
- Experience managing engineering managers and leading large engineering organizations (20 engineers)
- Proven experience leading large-scale enterprise infrastructure migrations
- Deep expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and cloud architecture
- Advanced experience with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and multi-cluster Kubernetes management
- Advanced experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices
- Experience driving cloud platform adoption across engineering organizations
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience implementing cloud native features with a focus on developer self-service platforms
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Argo Buildkite Jenkins Spinnaker
- Experience with platform observability tools (Prometheus Grafana Cloud Monitoring Google Cloud Logging Datadog Pagerduty)
Nice to Haves:
- Experience with Istio/Service Mesh technologies
- Experience with advanced deployment patterns (Canary Blue/Green A/B Testing)
- Experience with Kubernetes Admission Control (Kyverno OPA etc)
- Experience with workload scaling and capacity management (HPA VPA Capacity Planning)
- Experience in high-growth technology companies
Why Youll 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
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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Key Skills
- Go
- Lean
- Management Experience
- React
- Node.js
- Operations Management
- Project Management
- Research & Development
- Software Development
- Team Management
- GraphQL
- Leadership Experience
About Company
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