About the role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience in platform engineering/sre roles using an object oriented language (Python, Golang, etc)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Extensive experience working with Kubernetes in a public cloud (GKE, EKS, AKS, etc)
- Experience working with Istio/Service Mesh
- Experience working with IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, etc)
- Experience working within a Public Cloud environment (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc)
- Experience working with CI/CD tools such as Argo, Buildkite, TravisCI, Jenkins, Spinnaker, etc
- Experience working with platform observability tools (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Fluentbit, Cloud Monitoring, Google Cloud Logging, Datadog, Pagerduty, Cloudwatch, Kibana, Elastic Search, Splunk, VictorOps, etc)
- Experience with Networking
- Experience and desire to work in an agile environment
- Analytical mindset and passion for solving business problems with technology
- Experience working with Dev Testing tools and patterns such as Garden, Flagger, Canary Deployments, Blue/Green Testing, A/B Testing
- Experience setting up and working with Kubernetes Admission Control (Kyverno, OPA, etc)
- Experience working with workload scaling (HPA, VPA, Capacity Planning/Reservations, etc)
What the job involves
- We are looking for a passionate Platform Engineer to join the Service Lifecycle team at Wayfair. This team is responsible for everything that is necessary to successfully run a service or application in production at Wayfair
- On the service lifecycle team, we are responsible for the compute infrastructure on which all of Wayfair runs, service to service communication using our service mesh and Wayfair’s network edge which includes our CDN
- As part of our team, you will be solving complex problems that have a direct impact on production infrastructure that powers all of Wayfair’s business
- Work on a team of extremely talented platform engineers to help maintain and scale the current and future state services platform at Wayfair
- Help architect and develop the future state compute platform by leveraging industry best practices as well as embracing new technologies to support the future growth of Wayfair as a business
- Help influence the product roadmaps of GCP (our primary cloud provider) to better suit Wayfair’s future state architecture
- Work collaboratively with business and technical stakeholders to develop and architect enhancements to the compute platform capabilities that enable them to develop and iterate applications to power the Wayfair business
- Identify opportunities to introduce automation, improvements to avoid repetitive operational tasks (DRY)
- Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure operational excellence and overall platform health
About Wayfair
Retail
10,000+
Wayfair is the destination for all things home: helping everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home. From expert customer service, to the development of tools that make the shopping process easier, to carrying one of the widest and deepest selections of items for every space, style, and budget, Wayfair gives everyone the power to create spaces that are just right for them.
About the role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience in platform engineering/sre roles using an object oriented language (Python, Golang, etc)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Extensive experience working with Kubernetes in a public cloud (GKE, EKS, AKS, etc)
- Experience working with Istio/Service Mesh
- Experience working with IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, etc)
- Experience working within a Public Cloud environment (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc)
- Experience working with CI/CD tools such as Argo, Buildkite, TravisCI, Jenkins, Spinnaker, etc
- Experience working with platform observability tools (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Fluentbit, Cloud Monitoring, Google Cloud Logging, Datadog, Pagerduty, Cloudwatch, Kibana, Elastic Search, Splunk, VictorOps, etc)
- Experience with Networking
- Experience and desire to work in an agile environment
- Analytical mindset and passion for solving business problems with technology
- Experience working with Dev Testing tools and patterns such as Garden, Flagger, Canary Deployments, Blue/Green Testing, A/B Testing
- Experience setting up and working with Kubernetes Admission Control (Kyverno, OPA, etc)
- Experience working with workload scaling (HPA, VPA, Capacity Planning/Reservations, etc)
What the job involves
- We are looking for a passionate Platform Engineer to join the Service Lifecycle team at Wayfair. This team is responsible for everything that is necessary to successfully run a service or application in production at Wayfair
- On the service lifecycle team, we are responsible for the compute infrastructure on which all of Wayfair runs, service to service communication using our service mesh and Wayfair’s network edge which includes our CDN
- As part of our team, you will be solving complex problems that have a direct impact on production infrastructure that powers all of Wayfair’s business
- Work on a team of extremely talented platform engineers to help maintain and scale the current and future state services platform at Wayfair
- Help architect and develop the future state compute platform by leveraging industry best practices as well as embracing new technologies to support the future growth of Wayfair as a business
- Help influence the product roadmaps of GCP (our primary cloud provider) to better suit Wayfair’s future state architecture
- Work collaboratively with business and technical stakeholders to develop and architect enhancements to the compute platform capabilities that enable them to develop and iterate applications to power the Wayfair business
- Identify opportunities to introduce automation, improvements to avoid repetitive operational tasks (DRY)
- Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure operational excellence and overall platform health
About Wayfair
Retail
10,000+
Wayfair is the destination for all things home: helping everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home. From expert customer service, to the development of tools that make the shopping process easier, to carrying one of the widest and deepest selections of items for every space, style, and budget, Wayfair gives everyone the power to create spaces that are just right for them.