Platform Engineer III

We seek sharp thinkers who design scalable systems while keeping a startup mindset. Our culture values fast, data-driven innovation. 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.

Responsibilities :

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 the Wayfair system as part of the 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 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, 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.

Responsibilities :

6+ years of experience working in a 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 monitoring and alerting, with a focus on performance monitoring and tracing instrumentation, and SLI / SLO / SLAs.

Experience with decoupling monolith services is 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).

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.