Candi for this position are preferred to be based in Bangalore, India
Wayfair leads e-commerce for all things home, driven by modern tech. We seek sharp thinkers who design scalable systems while keeping a startup mindset. Our culture values fast, data-driven in ation. The Observability team needs experienced engineers skilled in cloud-native design, legacy maintenance, and SRE best practices plus ideas for improvement! We collaborate across Tech to ensure platforms and services are production-ready, contributing to both platform and software codebases.
What You ll Do:
- As a DevOps Engineer, you will join our team to help grow our systems into best-in-class for efficiency, stability, observability, velocity, and scale in the e-commerce space, engage with the product and engineering team from Day 1 to design, build and maintain the system / software proactively
- Influence the design and architecture of Wayfair system as part of Cloud Enablement journey whilst maintaining our critical pieces of Legacy Tools; collaborate with development teams to design scalable and reliable systems, considering aspects such as fault tolerance, availability and performance
- Work with both software engineers and platform Engineers to optimize and develop repeatable systems for the two sides to leverage each other. There s a wide range of opportunities to both guide the broad conver ion and dive into the nuance of our code & architecture
- Help service owners build realistic SLOs, set SLAs and error budgets, and ensure production services have reliability built into their design
- Even after self-healing and automation done by you -provide production support and creatively solve challenging engineering problems across our stack
- Participate in a shared on-call schedule managed across Engineering
- Automate repetitive tasks to increase efficiency and reduce human error
- Mentor new hires and other engineers by example, tech talks, paired programming, and other avenues to increase technical efficiency across the organization.
We Are a Match Because You Have:
- 6+ years experience working in DevOps or SRE role, or software development with an understanding of Cloud Infrastructure
- Experience with cloud platforms GCP, AWS, Azure, and containerization technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with server-side software engineering (Python, Go, Java, BASH etc)
- Design experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and related technologies
- Strong understanding of itoring and alerting, with a focus on performance itoring and tracing instrumentation & SLI/SLO/SLAs
- Experience oupling olith services a plus
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (e.g., Git).
- Excellent communication skills across engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders alike
- Knowledge of configuration management tools (e.g. Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Terraform)
- Passion for leading a large, cross-cutting technical initiative to delivery, cross-functional consensus building and influencing design isions
- Ample experience gathering and balancing requirements from technical and business stakeholders, and reaching consensus on prioritization
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading code reviews
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