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Wayfair Database Reliability Engineer - Platforms in Bangalore, India
<p><em>Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Bangalore, India and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements.</em></p>
<p><strong>Who We Are:</strong><strong> </strong>Wayfair runs the largest custom e-commerce large parcel network in the United States, approximately 1.6 million square meters of logistics space. The nature of the network is inherently a highly variable ecosystem that requires flexible, reliable, and resilient systems to operate efficiently.</p>
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<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>The team in the Bengaluru delivery center can work across multiple domains that drive speed and convenience for the customer and cost efficiency across the full value chain. The work we do at Wayfair means we have to move quickly, collaborating with the best and brightest engineers, creatives, product managers, data scientists, and analysts to discover, build, and scale world-class software products. </p>
<p>If you love to solve real business problems at scale, in a fast-paced, high growth and agile environment, this is the role for you! </p>
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<h4><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></h4>
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<li>Implement solutions and automation for managing petabyte-scale database environments</li>
<li>Improve observability by implementing monitoring, tracing and logging, enabling exposure of Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and adherence to Service Level Objectives (SLOs)</li>
<li>Implement a data-driven approach to performance and availability improvements to stakeholder database systems</li>
<li>Assist application teams in their journey to decouple large monolithic databases</li>
<li>Act as a lead engineer for production incidents to drive collaboration, resolution, identification of root cause, and changes required to prevent future occurrences</li>
<li>Participate in a follow the sun on-call rotation supporting and troubleshooting database issues off-hours and during promotional events</li>
<li>Design and implement self-service offerings for frictionless onboarding based on stakeholder requirements</li>
<li>Mentor junior engineers to develop the next generation of Wayfair engineering</li>
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<h4><strong>What You’ll Need</strong></h4>
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<li>5+ years of experience in a senior engineering or technical lead role</li>
<li>1+ years of experience with at least one of the following languages/frameworks: PowerShell, Python</li>
<li>Expertise in SQL Server - preferably, exposure or experience in at least one of the following cloud database technologies: Cloud SQL for Postgres, Cloud Spanner</li>
<li>Experience working with SQL Server's High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions </li>
<li>Experience working with public cloud providers such as GCP, AWS, or Azure, and running database systems at large scales/volumes</li>
<li>Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management tools such as Terraform and Puppet</li>
<li>Proven experience in automating operational and manual database tasks </li>
<li>Proven experience and successful track record of leading ambitious large scale projects as an individual contributor</li>
<li>Experience in leading complex technical projects and collaborating with other teams across organization boundaries</li>
<li>String written and oral communication skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with developers, vendors and leadership</li>
</ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong data-stringify-type="bold">About Wayfair Inc.</strong></p>
<p>Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or Berlin, 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice (<a class="c-link" href="https://www.wayfair.com/careers/privacy" target="blank" data-stringify-link="https://www.wayfair.com/careers/privacy" data-sk="tooltipparent">https://www.wayfair.com/careers/privacy</a>). If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights under applicable privacy and data protection laws, please contact us at <a class="c-link" href="mailto:dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com" target="blank" data-stringify-link="mailto:dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com" data-sk="tooltipparent">dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com</a>.</p></div>
