Platform Engineer, Wayfair
A global online homeware marketplace
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A global online homeware marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home.
Role
Who you are
- Wayfair is looking for candidates who are passionate about programming, and have strong core fundamentals - no matter how (or when!) they learned to code
- If you feel confident in your knowledge of system design, troubleshooting, making systems work in harmony and your ability to grow your skills over time, please apply
- We want to connect with developers who are eager to work in a highly collaborative team and add to Wayfair’s culture
- Bachelor’s Degree and 5+ years of professional experience writing code, working with APIs, or building backends
- Excellent team player with a passion for collaboration
- Great skills in solving complex problems with simple abstract solutions
- Experience working in agile environments
- Interest in being challenged in a fast-paced environment while having fun
- Analytical and creative mindset, with a passion for solving business problems with technology
- Ability to quickly translate business requirements into working features
- Deep understanding of platform concepts and components - networking fundamentals, Linux system management and troubleshooting, containerization, HTTP and webserving, end-to-end systems design etc
Desirable
- Expertise with anything here would be great!
- Scripting and tools (BASH, Python, Ruby, GoLang)
- Public Cloud (GCP, AWS etc)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi)
- Configuration as Code (Puppet, Ansible, Chef)
- CI/CD (Jenkins, BuildKite, CircleCI, TravisCI),
- Image Building & Artifact Management (Packer, Docker, Artifactory)
- Application/Container Orchestration (K8s, Docker Swarm)
What the job involves
- We sit at the intersections of foundational platforms, developer workflows, simplified operations, production readiness and service configuration and enablement
- Working to understand the needs of developers and platform owners and their journey to bring world-class experiences to our customers and suppliers, as well as internal and external teams
- Our engagement is dynamic, crossing technical boundaries of all kinds to simplify and accelerate. We are a diverse, multidisciplinary team of world-class engineers with a highly visible workstream that drives significant impact
- Responsible for being hands-on in building integrations, tools and patterns that are reliable, scalable and easy to maintain
- Ensure the quality of engineering within your team
- Contribute to architectural and code review discussions that impact our engineering ecosystem
- Raise the bar of the teams you'll be working with
- Collaborate with leads and engineers across multiple teams to solve a wide variety of business and technical problems
- Ensure our systems are properly documented
- Contribute to the growth and development of the Wayfair engineering scene within Toronto and beyond
Our take
Wayfair emerged in the early era of eCommerce with a mission to revolutionize online shopping, offering customers a convenient platform to purchase goods. Today, it stands as one of the foremost global players in the online furniture delivery industry, boasting an impressive inventory of over 33 million products.
Renowned for its extensive product range and comprehensive service offerings, Wayfair distinguishes itself by providing an end-to-end customer experience, from browsing to doorstep delivery. Despite its prominence, the company faces profitability challenges attributed largely to expansion expenses. Nonetheless, its solid presence in the competitive online homeware sector solidifies its position as a key contender.
With ambitious global expansion plans, Wayfair remains committed to maintaining its leadership in the industry. As it aspires to become the ultimate destination for all home needs, its more recent ventures into physical retail represent significant strides toward this overarching goal.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company values
- Relentless Customer Focus: Delivering an exceptional customer experience drives everything we do. We invest in understanding our customers and partners. We are all in customer service
- Deliver Rsults With Agility: We prioritize work that drives long-term value. We execute with urgency, learn from failure, and nimbly pivot. The outcomes of our efforts are impactful, measurable results
- Use Good Judgement: We are bold and confident, never reckless. We make reasoned, calculated decisions based on data, critical thinking, and pattern recognition
- Build the Best Team: We lead by setting the bar high, articulating clear goals, and diving deep. We hire, develop, and leverage only the best. Our leaders continually reevaluate and strengthen their teams and do not shy away from hard decisions. We expect and demonstrate excellence
- Collaborate Effectively: We invest in cross-functional global partnerships that maximize impact and minimize duplication. We prize collaboration in all interactions – with our teammates, stakeholders, and suppliers. We disagree, align, and commit. Effectiveness and efficiency in collaboration are required.
- Respect Others: We earn and show respect, treating our teammates and partners with empathy and inclusion. We presume good intent while prioritizing impact. We balance confidence and candor with humility and kindness.
- Be an Owner: We are Wayfair first. We act on what’s best for the company, ahead of team or individual goals. We spend every dollar as if it is our own. We take pride in Wayfair’s success while planning the next win. We always think long-term
- Innovate & Improve: We are not limited by precedent. We boldly challenge the norm. We continually identify opportunities to innovate, improve, and simplify. We value incremental improvements, but we also look for game-changing breakthroughs.
- Adapt & Grow: We value adaptability and self-reflection. We find opportunity in every change, experience, and mistake. We are committed to continuous self-improvement.
Company HQ
Prudential / St. Botolph, Boston, MA
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Leadership
Niraj Shah
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Engineering at Cornell University before co-founding Spinners, a Boston-based IT services company. Previously acted as Entrepreneur in Residence for Greylock and has served as CEO of Wayfair since co-founding the company in 2002.
Steven Conine
(Co-Founder)Co-founded Spinners before working for Operations at iXL. Conine also co-founded Pillar VC in 2016.
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