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Wayfair Hiring for Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Bangalore, India Full Time

Who We Are:

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.

Our Site Reliability Engineering team is looking for experienced engineers who have a mind for cloud native design, stability, and an understanding of SRE 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. 

What You’ll Do:

  • As a Senior SRE, 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; collaborate with development teams to design scalable and reliable systems, considering aspects such as fault tolerance, availability and performance
  • Influence the design and architecture of Wayfair system as part of Cloud Enablement journey; 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 fellow SREs 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 conversation 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 – if EXTREME complex issues arise, get involved into troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of issues across the stacks – hardware, software, database, network and so on
  • Participate in a shared on-call schedule [follow-the-sun model] managed across SRE & Engineering
  • Develop and maintain tools and frameworks for automating the deployment, CI/CD pipeline, configuration, and management of software systems. 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.

What You’ll Need:

  • 5+ years experience working as a Senior or Staff Engineer in a 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 (Java, Go, Perl, Python etc)
  • Design experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and related technologies
  • Strong understanding of monitoring and alerting, with a focus on performance monitoring and tracing instrumentation & SLI/SLO/SLAs
  • Experience decoupling monolith 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

Nice To Have:

  • Passion for leading a large, cross-cutting technical initiative to delivery, cross-functional consensus building and influencing design decisions
  • Ample experience gathering and balancing requirements from technical and business stakeholders, and reaching consensus on prioritization
  • Experience mentoring engineers and leading code reviews

Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities

Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accomodations for Applicants form.

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About Wayfair Inc.
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.

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.

We are interested in retaining your data for a period of 12 months to consider you for suitable positions within Wayfair. Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice (which can found here: https://www.wayfair.com/careers/privacy). If you have any questions regarding our processing of your personal data, please contact us at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com. If you would rather not have us retain your data please contact us anytime at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com. 

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