Wayfair.com is a leader in the e-commerce space for all things home. Our Data Platforms Engineering team is looking for smart, passionate and curious people who are excited to help us scale, support and engineer our distributed and streaming infrastructure. With the broad reach of the technologies we are using, you will have the opportunity to grow your network and skills by being exposed to new people and ideas who work on a diverse set of cutting-edge technologies. 

As a Software Engineer II, you will join one of our core platform teams as a key contributor to the development and maintenance of our messaging infrastructure. In this hands-on role, you’ll be able to see how your work powers the data engineering, analytics and the platforms team to do their daily jobs more effectively.

What You’ll Do:

• Monitors Production environment, provides support for incidents/alerts, provides technical guidance to junior engineers for resolving issues.
• Takes on complex problems, designs and implements appropriate and scalable solutions
• Delivers solutions with limited supervision and is able to autonomously overcome roadblocks
• Leads / Participates in Kafka consultations, platform improvements, and capacity planning
• Demonstrates technical ownership, gives accurate estimates of work and completes multi-week/month scoped initiatives which are impactful to the team and the business 
• Work closely with our team to understand their day to day issues and recommend automated solutions to solve their problems
• Follow best practices in troubleshooting methodology to investigate complex problems
• Work with minimal supervision and have a self-starter approach towards working on a variety of technologies
• Participates in decision-making around architecture and roadmaps
• Proposes ideas for technical improvements scoped at the team level
• Work with an eye towards automation and efficiency, and look for opportunities to streamline processes and work
• Follow best practices in documentation for all work completed, including updating existing, and writing new
• Always use data to lead decisions and back up your assertions
• Lead and run Subject Matter Expert programs for Kafka, PubSub and Technologies used in Messaging Tech to spread the knowledge to our large and diverse user base
• Participate in an on call rotation which is distributed across the team
• Communicate clearly and effectively with both internal and external stakeholders to keep all parties informed and up to speed on initiatives and projects

What You Have:

• 5+ years of SRE and/or SWE experience while thinking like a data engineer
• Strong experience in working with Kafka, Terraform, Puppet, Git 
• Experience with working with an enterprise cloud provider such as GCP (especially PubSub) or with Azure, AWS is a plus
• Strong programming skills: Ideally in Python or Java
• Experience working with both Linux and Windows

• Strong Agile SDLC background
• Experience with large scale enterprise environments in geographically diverse locations