Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Bangalore, India and will be expected to comply with their teams hybrid work schedule requirements.
At Wayfair we are well on the way to becoming the world s number one, online destination for all things home. Our core belief is that everyone should live in a home they love. We make this possible by ensuring our 24 million customers have all the technology and innovation they need at their fingertips, to give them access to our more than 33 million products which are provided by our 23,000 awesome global suppliers. In the Storefront team, we are the first impression of a customer s shopping experience; we own the design and implementation of the customer-facing website. We partner with Product, Experience Design, Analytics and business leaders across Wayfair; our Storefront Engineering teams ensure that we re building technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, measurable ways.
Bengaluru is home to our brand new, strategic technology delivery center and will be critical to achieving our future growth plans. We are looking for best in class Engineers to come in and help scale our technical products and teams alike as we continue on our path to be the world s number one online destination for the home. As one of the early members of the team here in our strategic technology delivery center, you will partner closely with our technology and business leaders from around the world to help build the platform to support our growth plans to $50B USD and beyond in the next 3 to 5 years.
What You ll Do
Implement solutions and automation for managing petabyte-scale database environments
Improve observability by implementing monitoring, tracing and logging, enabling exposure of Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and adherence to Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
Implement a data-driven approach to performance and availability improvements to stakeholder database systems
Assist application teams in their journey to decouple large monolithic databases
Act as a lead engineer for production incidents to drive collaboration, resolution, identification of root cause, and changes required to prevent future occurrences
Participate in a follow the sun on-call rotation supporting and troubleshooting database issues off-hours and during promotional events
Design and implement self-service offerings for frictionless onboarding based on stakeholder requirements
Mentor junior engineers to develop the next generation of Wayfair engineering
What You ll Need
5+ years of experience in a senior engineering or technical lead role
1+ years of experience with at least one of the following languages/frameworks: PowerShell, Python
Expertise in SQL Server - preferably, exposure or experience in at least one of the following cloud database technologies: Cloud SQL for Postgres, Cloud Spanner
Experience working with SQL Servers High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions
Experience working with public cloud providers such as GCP, AWS, or Azure, and running database systems at large scales/volumes
Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management tools such as Terraform and Puppet
Proven experience in automating operational and manual database tasks
Proven experience and successful track record of leading ambitious large scale projects as an individual contributor
Experience in leading complex technical projects and collaborating with other teams across organization boundaries
String written and oral communication skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with developers, vendors and leadership