Who We Are

The Data Infrastructure  team at Wayfair is responsible for the core technologies that underlie a cutting-edge ecommerce business and exceptional customer experience, from order processing and logistics optimization to machine learning and AI. Our team is looking for a smart, passionate, and curious manager who is excited to help us scale our database platforms. 

With the broad set of technologies we are using and the scale at which our systems operate, you will have the opportunity to utilize your  skills to mentor and develop a team of Database Reliability Engineers to support existing database technologies that are core to Wayfair’s business, and transition them to support the next evolution of the database platforms here at Wayfair.   If you are the type of person who is fascinated by engineering extremely large deployments of high-volume systems, skilled in managing a team of highly skilled engineers, and passionate about operating in a fast paced environment, we should talk. 

What You’ll Do

• Manage a team of Database Reliability Engineers to operate a petabyte-scale database environment in a public cloud environment
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and other development techniques to ensure all direct reports deliver high quality work and continue to grow in their careers
• Meet with direct reports regularly to understand their work experience and identify blockers to ensure they do not impede them. In addition, ensure they are meeting or have a development plan to meet the Wayfair People Principles
• Utilize a data-driven approach to both direct reports and contracting team management to monitor for performance and execution against the team’s objectives
• Coordinate with department leaders and Product Managers to define initiatives and priorities to ensure all tasks are aligned with larger organization goals
• Act as a leader for impactful production incidents to drive collaboration, resolution, identification of root cause, and changes required to prevent future occurrences
• Participate and manage on-call and production support rotations to support and troubleshoot database issues off-hours and during promotional events
• Ensure sufficient self-service offerings are available for frictionless Engineering engagement on all database deployment tasks
• Mentor junior engineers to develop the next generation of Wayfair engineering

What You’ll Need

• 7+ years experience with database technologies, or strong familiarity and demonstrated ability to become expert
• Specific experience with Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL and other relational and non-relational database platforms
• 3+ years leading and managing a distributed database engineering team (providing coaching, mentoring, setting goals, and recruiting talent)
• 3+ years of experience working in public cloud environments, preferably with preference Google Cloud Platform
• Experience in maintaining automation around infrastructure provisioning utilizing Infrastructure as a Code (preferably Terraform and Puppet)
• Experience in utilizing Agile best practices for team workload management and prioritization setting
• Experience in operating in a large scale database environment in an ecommerce environment
• Knowledge of large-scale distributed systems architecture, design, implementation and performance tuning
• Experience in modern DevOps/SRE practices such as CI/CD, performance monitoring, chaos engineering & load testing, and incident & problem management

*This is a hybrid role based out of our Toronto office*