Site Reliability Engineer, Wayfair
Messaging Technology
A global online homeware marketplace
Job no longer available
A global online homeware marketplace
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of SRE and/or SWE experience while thinking like a data engineer
- Strong experience in working with Kafka, 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
What the job involves
- As an Engineer, you will join one of our core platform teams as a key contributor to the development and maintenance of our messaging infrastructure
- In this hands-on role, you’ll be able to see how your work powers the data engineering, analytics and the platforms team to do their daily jobs more effectively
- 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
- Leads / Participates in Kafka 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 Kafka, PubSub and Technologies used in Messaging Tech 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
Our take
Wayfair emerged in the early era of eCommerce with a mission to revolutionise online shopping, offering customers a convenient platform to purchase goods. Today, it stands as one of the foremost global players in the online furniture delivery industry, boasting an impressive inventory of over 33 million products.
Renowned for its extensive product range and comprehensive service offerings, Wayfair distinguishes itself by providing an end-to-end customer experience, from browsing to doorstep delivery. Despite its prominence, the company faces profitability challenges attributed largely to expansion expenses. Nonetheless, its solid presence in the competitive online homeware sector solidifies its position as a key contender.
With ambitious global expansion plans, Wayfair remains committed to maintaining its leadership in the industry. As it aspires to become the ultimate destination for all home needs, its more recent ventures into physical retail represent significant strides toward this overarching goal.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Prudential / St. Botolph, Boston, MA
Leadership
Niraj Shah
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Engineering at Cornell University before co-founding Spinners, a Boston-based IT services company. Previously acted as Entrepreneur in Residence for Greylock and has served as CEO of Wayfair since co-founding the company in 2002.
Steven Conine
(Co-Founder)Co-founded Spinners before working for Operations at iXL. Conine also co-founded Pillar VC in 2016.
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