Senior Engineer, Wayfair
Identity and Access Management
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3 days a week in office
A global online homeware marketplace
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A global online homeware marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home.
Role
Who you are
- We’re currently looking for an innovative and creative Senior Engineer to help our team build new services, maintain and improve current solutions, and consult on broader issues of authentication and authorization
- On top of being an excellent developer, our ideal candidate is most effective in a fast-paced collaborative environment, delights in new problem areas, and is driven by curiosity and a creative spirit
- 7+ years of experience in Identity & Access Management and other information security related domains
- Strong Python application development skills, preferably experience developing and maintaining authentication and authorization for web applications
- Additional experience in at least one other core web language or common scripting language ( (e.g. Java, Javascript, Go, PowerShell, Python)
- Familiarity with a broad range of authentication and authorization best practices, use-cases, and patterns
- Solid grasp of and experience using the OAuth2.0 framework
- Thorough understanding of RESTful APIs and authenticating and authorizing against them
- Experience developing within Service Oriented Architecture parameters; comfort writing and deploying re-usable APIs (experience deploying to Kubernetes preferred)
- Comfortable with the subject matter of Identity & Access Management, e.g. common access control mechanisms (RBAC, ABAC, PBAC), PKI, User Lifecycle patterns, Principle of Least Privilege, LDAP, etc
- Comfortable with DevOps principles and source code and configuration management practices using GIt
- Preferred skills include experience with IDaaS Solutions like Okta or Keycloak, and SailPoint
- Hands-On experience writing SQL queries
- Experience using Hashicorp stack (Terraform & Vault), Elastic Stack (Kibana & Elasticsearch), and Docker
- Any cybersecurity certifications: CISSP, CISM or equivalent
- Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming data platforms (e.g Kafka, GCP Pub/Sub)
- Familiarity with open-source authorization tools such as Keycloak, Open Policy Agent, and Casbin
- Broad familiarity with a wide variety of IT and Infrastructural systems to help facilitate integrations. Examples: ServiceNow, Jira, Active Directory, Google Cloud Platform, Workday, etc
What the job involves
- Our Identity & Access Engineering team is responsible for building solutions to effectively orchestrate user account lifecycles, ensure seamless authentication for internal and external applications, and facilitate user access requests
- We lean heavily on automation to create scalable solutions that help the Security team fulfill its mission of security by design
- This role will also be responsible for helping grow our systems according to industry standards and best practices
- Build and maintain Identity & Access tools and applications and work with cross-functional project teams to ensure that solutions are to specification and provide quantifiable value
- Support new and existing integrations with our core Identity platforms and services (SailPoint IdentityNow & Okta)
- Customization of Okta SSO SDKs for Mobile and Web applications leveraging
- Consult with broader Infrastructure team on topics of authentication and authorization, offering best practices and developing additional tooling to create improved experiences for developers that require authentication and authorization in their applications
- Support and suggest improvements across entire IAM technology stack, including technical flows that support lifecycle processes, data and access governance, alerting and monitoring, group orchestration, and event publishing
- Stay abreast of IAM industry best practices and new solutions (including open source and off the shelf products) to help improve our patterns and tech stack
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.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company values
- Relentless Customer Focus: Delivering an exceptional customer experience drives everything we do. We invest in understanding our customers and partners. We are all in customer service
- Deliver Rsults With Agility: We prioritize work that drives long-term value. We execute with urgency, learn from failure, and nimbly pivot. The outcomes of our efforts are impactful, measurable results
- Use Good Judgement: We are bold and confident, never reckless. We make reasoned, calculated decisions based on data, critical thinking, and pattern recognition
- Build the Best Team: We lead by setting the bar high, articulating clear goals, and diving deep. We hire, develop, and leverage only the best. Our leaders continually reevaluate and strengthen their teams and do not shy away from hard decisions. We expect and demonstrate excellence
- Collaborate Effectively: We invest in cross-functional global partnerships that maximize impact and minimize duplication. We prize collaboration in all interactions – with our teammates, stakeholders, and suppliers. We disagree, align, and commit. Effectiveness and efficiency in collaboration are required.
- Respect Others: We earn and show respect, treating our teammates and partners with empathy and inclusion. We presume good intent while prioritizing impact. We balance confidence and candor with humility and kindness.
- Be an Owner: We are Wayfair first. We act on what’s best for the company, ahead of team or individual goals. We spend every dollar as if it is our own. We take pride in Wayfair’s success while planning the next win. We always think long-term
- Innovate & Improve: We are not limited by precedent. We boldly challenge the norm. We continually identify opportunities to innovate, improve, and simplify. We value incremental improvements, but we also look for game-changing breakthroughs.
- Adapt & Grow: We value adaptability and self-reflection. We find opportunity in every change, experience, and mistake. We are committed to continuous self-improvement.
Company HQ
Prudential / St. Botolph, Boston, MA
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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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