Platform Engineer, Wayfair
Service Lifecycle
A global online homeware marketplace
Open for applications
A global online homeware marketplace
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ 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
- Experience working with IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, etc)
- Experience working within a Public Cloud environment (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc)
- Extensive experience working with Kubernetes in a public cloud (GKE, EKS, AKS, 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 and desire to work in an agile environment
- Analytical mindset and passion for solving business problems with technology
Desirable
- Experience with Networking
- Experience working with Istio/Service Mesh
- 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.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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