Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Bangalore, India
Who We Are:
Wayfair leads e-commerce for all things home, driven by modern tech. We seek sharp thinkers who design scalable systems while keeping a startup mindset. Our culture values fast, data-driven innovation.
The Observability team needs experienced engineers skilled in cloud-native design, legacy maintenance, and SRE best practices—plus ideas for improvement! We collaborate across Tech to ensure platforms and services are production-ready, contributing to both platform and software codebases.
What You’ll Do:
As a DevOps Engineer, you will join our team to help grow our systems into best-in-class for efficiency, stability, observability, velocity, and scale in the e-commerce space, engage with the product and engineering team from Day 1 to design, build and maintain the system / software proactively
Influence the design and architecture of Wayfair system as part of Cloud Enablement journey whilst maintaining our critical pieces of Legacy Tools; collaborate with development teams to design scalable and reliable systems, considering aspects such as fault tolerance, availability and performance
Work with both software engineers and platform Engineers to optimize and develop repeatable systems for the two sides to leverage each other. There’s a wide range of opportunities to both guide the broad conversation and dive into the nuance of our code & architecture
Help service owners build realistic SLOs, set SLAs and error budgets, and ensure production services have “reliability” built into their design
Even after self-healing and automation done by you –provide production support and creatively solve challenging engineering problems across our stack
Participate in a shared on-call schedule managed across Engineering
Automate repetitive tasks to increase efficiency and reduce human error
Mentor new hires and other engineers by example, tech talks, paired programming, and other avenues to increase technical efficiency across the organisation.
We Are a Match Because You Have:
3+ years experience working in
DevOps or SRE role
, or software development with an understanding of Cloud Infrastructure
Experience with cloud platforms
GCP, AWS,
Azure, and containerization technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)