Staff Engineer, Data Platforms

What You’ll Do:

• Play a key role in developing and driving a multi-year data technology strategy for The Data Platforms that handle Next-Gen Data platform strategies and complexities across Wayfair's large scale system strategy.

• Play the technical lead role across multiple software development teams - architecting solutions at scale to empower the business, and owning all aspects of the SDLC: design, build, deliver, and maintain
• Indirectly manage several architects and managers by offering coaching, guidance, and mentorship to support individual and team growth.
• Inspire, coach, mentor, and support your the technology team members in order to grow & retain the engineering talents,
• Lead your team and peers by example. As a senior member of the team your methodologies, technical and operational excellence practices, and system designs will help to continuously improve our platforms,
• Identify, propose, and drive initiatives to advance the technical skills, standards, practices, architecture, and documentation of our platforms,
• Facilitate technical brainstorm and decision making with an appreciation for trade-offs,

• Continuously rethinking and pushing the status quo, even when it challenges your/our established ideas.

What You’ll Need:

• As a Senior Staff Engineer, a key focus has been on collaboratively building impactful data products and data platforms, working closely with both Product Management and Engineering stakeholders. This collaborative approach has been driven by a deep understanding of market opportunities, enabling the strategic development of solutions designed to achieve significant adoption.

• A results-oriented and collaborative individual with a pragmatic approach and a continuous improvement mindset, possessing hands-on experience in driving impactful software transformations within complex, high-growth environments involving cross-continentally owned products,
• 16+ years of experience in engineering, out of which at least 10 years spent in building and adoption of the highly performant products and platforms,
• Proven experience in making critical architectural and design decisions for large-scale platforms, demonstrating a strong understanding of the trade-offs between time-to-market and long-term flexibility, coupled with a track record of designing and building high-scale, generalizable products that deliver an outstanding user experience.
• Capability to communicate and collaborate across the wider organization, influencing decisions with and without direct authority and always with inclusive, adaptable, and persuasive communication

• Demonstrated analytical and decision-making skills, effectively integrating technical feasibility with business requirements to drive informed and impactful outcomes.

• Deep Expertise in Scalable, Observable Platform Engineering: Proven track record in architecting scalable data platforms and systems using modern patterns (microservices, event-driven), with built-in observability via tools like Datadog, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry. Experienced in building resilient, self-monitoring services and critical components like API gateways and ingestion layers.

• Strong New-Age Data Platform Design Mindset for Data Platforms: Applies Data Mesh principles (de-centralized, distributed ownership) to data platform products, ensuring reliability and reducing toil for developers. Led SLO definition and implementation for CI/CD systems.
• Infrastructure as Code & Automation Expertise: Extensive use of Terraform and automation tools to build reusable, self-service infrastructure on platforms like Kubernetes, empowering developers with reliable, easy-to-consume environments.
• Developer-Centric Tools & API Design: Built intuitive APIs, CLI tools, and self-service deployment systems with deep empathy for developer workflows, significantly improving developer experience and productivity.

• Robust Software Engineering & Developer Journey Focus: Strong coding skills and deep understanding of the developer lifecycle, consistently driving platform features that align with developer needs and workflows.

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