Software Engineer, Wayfair

Service Lifecycle

CA$192-211.9k

+ Restricted stock units

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Terraform

Kibana

Splunk

Jenkins

Azure

Prometheus

Grafana

Spinnaker

Golang

Datadog

Pulumi

Mid and Senior level

Toronto

More information about location

3 days a week in office

A global online homeware marketplace

Be an early applicant

A global online homeware marketplace

1001+ employees

B2CRetailLifestyleMarketplaceInterior designFurnitureHome improvementeCommerce

Be an early applicant

CA$192-211.9k

+ Restricted stock units

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Terraform

Kibana

Splunk

Jenkins

Azure

Prometheus

Grafana

Spinnaker

Golang

Datadog

Pulumi

Mid and Senior level

Toronto

More information about location

3 days a week in office

1001+ employees

B2CRetailLifestyleMarketplaceInterior designFurnitureHome improvementeCommerce

Company mission

To help everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

4+ years of experience in platform engineering/sre roles using an object oriented language (Python, Golang, etc)
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
Extensive experience working with Kubernetes in a public cloud (GKE, EKS, AKS, etc)
Experience working with Istio/Service Mesh
Experience working with IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, etc)
Experience working within a Public Cloud environment (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc)
Experience working with CI/CD tools such as Argo, Buildkite, TravisCI, Jenkins, Spinnaker, etc
Experience working with platform observability tools (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Fluentbit, Cloud Monitoring, Google Cloud Logging, Datadog, Pagerduty, Cloudwatch, Kibana, Elastic Search, Splunk, VictorOps, etc)
Experience with Networking
Experience and desire to work in an agile environment
Analytical mindset and passion for solving business problems with technology

Desirable

Experience working with Dev Testing tools and patterns such as Garden, Flagger, Canary Deployments, Blue/Green Testing, A/B Testing
Experience setting up and working with Kubernetes Admission Control (Kyverno, OPA, etc)
Experience working with workload scaling (HPA, VPA, Capacity Planning/Reservations, etc)

What the job involves

We are looking for a passionate Platform Engineer to join the Service Lifecycle team at Wayfair. This team is responsible for everything that is necessary to successfully run a service or application in production at Wayfair
On the service lifecycle team, we are responsible for the compute infrastructure on which all of Wayfair runs, service to service communication using our service mesh and Wayfair’s network edge which includes our CDN
As part of our team, you will be solving complex problems that have a direct impact on production infrastructure that powers all of Wayfair’s business
Work on a team of extremely talented platform engineers to help maintain and scale the current and future state services platform at Wayfair
Help architect and develop the future state compute platform by leveraging industry best practices as well as embracing new technologies to support the future growth of Wayfair as a business
Help influence the product roadmaps of GCP (our primary cloud provider) to better suit Wayfair’s future state architecture
Work collaboratively with business and technical stakeholders to develop and architect enhancements to the compute platform capabilities that enable them to develop and iterate applications to power the Wayfair business
Identify opportunities to introduce automation, improvements to avoid repetitive operational tasks (DRY)
Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure operational excellence and overall platform health

Our take

Wayfair emerged in the early era of eCommerce with a mission to revolutionize 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

Glassdoor (3.1)

Trustpilot (3.8)

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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