Software Engineer I
Top Benefits
About the role
Salary Range: $120,000 - $130,000 per year
"This job posting is for an existing vacancy”
“Please click here/refer to Wayfair’s Career Page for information about how Wayfair uses AI to enhance its recruiting and hiring processes.”
Candidates for this position must be based in Toronto, Canada and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements.
Software Engineer 1**, Connectivity (Edge & CDN)**
Who We Are
Wayfair believes everyone deserves a home they love, and that furnishing your home should be a source of fun, not anxiety. The Edge & CDN team owns the front door for every Wayfair brand. We run a multi-CDN setup, manage authoritative DNS, and operate the load-balancing tier that handles all customer traffic. Our charter is reliability, performance, efficiency, and self-service—every improvement we ship at the edge translates directly into customer experience and business outcomes.
What You'll Do
As an L1 engineer on the team, you'll learn how a global edge platform works from the inside writing edge logic, instrumenting the request path, and shipping changes that show up in production performance quickly. You will partner with senior engineers on performance, reliability, and observability work, owning well-scoped pieces of those programs end to end.
- Build and maintain edge logic: header rewrites, routing rules, trace propagation, and experimentation hooks.
- Contribute to core initiatives: own scoped deliverables such as a single service, dashboard, or migration script.
- Infrastructure-as-Code: write and review configurations for CDN and edge, participating in change reviews and rollouts behind feature flags.
- Incident Response: investigate production incidents on the edge tier alongside senior engineers; write postmortems and ship the follow-ups.
- Self-Service Tooling: build tools that let partner teams configure edge behavior without filing a ticket.
- AI Integration: use AI coding assistants as a daily part of your workflow for drafting code, generating tests, and exploring unfamiliar codebases.
What You'll Need
- Education/Experience: BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience; 0-2 years of professional software engineering experience including internships.
- Technical Skills: Solid fundamentals in at least one mainstream language (TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, or Go preferred).
- Web Fundamentals: Working understanding of HTTP, DNS, TLS, caching headers, and the request lifecycle.
- Engineering Rigor: Comfort with Git, code review, and writing tests as a default.
- Communication: Clear written communication with the ability to explain tradeoffs in a PR or short message.
- Ownership: A sense of curiosity and ownership regarding performance metrics and system behavior.
AI Fluency (Required)
We expect every engineer on this team to be a fluent user of modern AI tooling. For an L1, that means:
- Daily AI-assisted development: You actively use AI assistants for scaffolding, refactoring, and debugging.
- Prompting as a skill: You can decompose tasks into prompts and critically review AI output rather than copy-pasting.
- AI for operations: You are interested in applying LLMs to edge problems like log triage and anomaly summarization.
- Healthy skepticism: You understand that AI code needs the same testing and security review as human-written code.
Why You’ll Love Wayfair
- Time Off: Paid Holidays and Paid Time Off (PTO).
- Health & Wellness: Full Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA/FSA) , Life Insurance , and Disability Protection.
- Global Wellbeing: Gym/Fitness discounts (including US Peloton, Global ClassPass) , Mental Health Support , and Caregiver Services.
- Financial Growth & Security: 401K Matching , Tuition Reimbursement , Financial Health Education (KOFE) , and Tax Advantaged Accounts.
- Family Support: Family Planning Support , Parental Leave , and Global Surrogacy & Adoption Policy
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 Accommodations for Applicants form.
Need Assistance?
For more information about applying for a career at Wayfair, visit our FAQ page here.
About Wayfair Inc.
Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. 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.
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.
Need Technical Assistance?
For more information about applying for a career at wayfair, visit our FAQ page here.
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 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.
Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice (https://www.wayfair.com/careers/privacy). If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights under applicable privacy and data protection laws, please contact us at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com.
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About Wayfair
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.
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Software Engineer I
Top Benefits
About the role
Salary Range: $120,000 - $130,000 per year
"This job posting is for an existing vacancy”
“Please click here/refer to Wayfair’s Career Page for information about how Wayfair uses AI to enhance its recruiting and hiring processes.”
Candidates for this position must be based in Toronto, Canada and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements.
Software Engineer 1**, Connectivity (Edge & CDN)**
Who We Are
Wayfair believes everyone deserves a home they love, and that furnishing your home should be a source of fun, not anxiety. The Edge & CDN team owns the front door for every Wayfair brand. We run a multi-CDN setup, manage authoritative DNS, and operate the load-balancing tier that handles all customer traffic. Our charter is reliability, performance, efficiency, and self-service—every improvement we ship at the edge translates directly into customer experience and business outcomes.
What You'll Do
As an L1 engineer on the team, you'll learn how a global edge platform works from the inside writing edge logic, instrumenting the request path, and shipping changes that show up in production performance quickly. You will partner with senior engineers on performance, reliability, and observability work, owning well-scoped pieces of those programs end to end.
- Build and maintain edge logic: header rewrites, routing rules, trace propagation, and experimentation hooks.
- Contribute to core initiatives: own scoped deliverables such as a single service, dashboard, or migration script.
- Infrastructure-as-Code: write and review configurations for CDN and edge, participating in change reviews and rollouts behind feature flags.
- Incident Response: investigate production incidents on the edge tier alongside senior engineers; write postmortems and ship the follow-ups.
- Self-Service Tooling: build tools that let partner teams configure edge behavior without filing a ticket.
- AI Integration: use AI coding assistants as a daily part of your workflow for drafting code, generating tests, and exploring unfamiliar codebases.
What You'll Need
- Education/Experience: BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience; 0-2 years of professional software engineering experience including internships.
- Technical Skills: Solid fundamentals in at least one mainstream language (TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, or Go preferred).
- Web Fundamentals: Working understanding of HTTP, DNS, TLS, caching headers, and the request lifecycle.
- Engineering Rigor: Comfort with Git, code review, and writing tests as a default.
- Communication: Clear written communication with the ability to explain tradeoffs in a PR or short message.
- Ownership: A sense of curiosity and ownership regarding performance metrics and system behavior.
AI Fluency (Required)
We expect every engineer on this team to be a fluent user of modern AI tooling. For an L1, that means:
- Daily AI-assisted development: You actively use AI assistants for scaffolding, refactoring, and debugging.
- Prompting as a skill: You can decompose tasks into prompts and critically review AI output rather than copy-pasting.
- AI for operations: You are interested in applying LLMs to edge problems like log triage and anomaly summarization.
- Healthy skepticism: You understand that AI code needs the same testing and security review as human-written code.
Why You’ll Love Wayfair
- Time Off: Paid Holidays and Paid Time Off (PTO).
- Health & Wellness: Full Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA/FSA) , Life Insurance , and Disability Protection.
- Global Wellbeing: Gym/Fitness discounts (including US Peloton, Global ClassPass) , Mental Health Support , and Caregiver Services.
- Financial Growth & Security: 401K Matching , Tuition Reimbursement , Financial Health Education (KOFE) , and Tax Advantaged Accounts.
- Family Support: Family Planning Support , Parental Leave , and Global Surrogacy & Adoption Policy
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 Accommodations for Applicants form.
Need Assistance?
For more information about applying for a career at Wayfair, visit our FAQ page here.
About Wayfair Inc.
Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. 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.
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.
Need Technical Assistance?
For more information about applying for a career at wayfair, visit our FAQ page here.
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 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.
Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice (https://www.wayfair.com/careers/privacy). If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights under applicable privacy and data protection laws, please contact us at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com.
Not the right fit? Search for Software Engineer jobs in Toronto, ON
About Wayfair
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.