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.

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