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Wayfair Engineering Manager, Platforms & Reliability in Bangalore, India
<p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p>
<p>Wayfair is a leader in the e-commerce space for all things home. We live and breathe modern technologies. We’re looking for smart, logical thinkers who can advocate for systems and designs that work at scale, but still retain the startup feel. We pride ourselves on scrappy innovation - getting real, working solutions deployed quickly and iterating based on data.</p>
<p>Our Platform Reliability Engineering team is looking for experienced engineers who have a mind for cloud native design, stability, and an understanding of Software best practices - and some ideas about what could be better! We work across our Technology organization to ensure our platforms and services are ready for prime time by contributing to both the platform and software code bases. </p>
<p><strong>What You’ll Do </strong></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Write clean, high-performance, and well tested, infrastructure code with a focus on reusability. (Puppet / Python / Terraform / Packer)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Build out a team of 8 - 11 engineers. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Create and maintain detailed documentation </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Establish, maintain, and adhere to Wayfair technical standards, policies, and procedures </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Recommend and implement infrastructure best practices in alignment with standard SRE principles and provide guidance on system performance and throughput expectations.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Support development teams in designing, scaling, and operating production data infrastructure potentially including, but not limited to, CloudSQL, Firestore, Pub/Sub, Kafka, Dataproc, Airflow. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Path finding missions; taking existing platforms at Wayfair and helping move them to the cloud </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leverage software development skills to enable self-service deployment of distributed systems.</span></li>
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<p><strong>What You Have</strong></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">10+ years of relevant industry experience in Software and/or work on cloud data systems in a senior or technical lead role</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Prior experience leading/managing engineers in an Agile environment</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience designing and deploying infrastructure in the cloud with durability and resilience in mind</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience with using cloud database, storage, and data services as part of an application (GCP, AWS, or Azure) </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience with real-time streaming tools and frameworks, such as Kafka, Pubsub, and Dataflow</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience with modern orchestration tools and frameworks, such as Airflow and/or Composer. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience with GCP’s data stores including Cloud SQL, Spanner, Firestore, and BigQuery. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience with distributed data processing systems including Spark, Hive, and/or Presto.</span></li>
</ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong data-stringify-type="bold">About Wayfair Inc.</strong></p>
<p>Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or Berlin, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.</p>
<p>No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re a community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate our differences, and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and well-positioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees, customers, community, and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair – and world – for all. Every voice, every perspective matters. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.</p>
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