Description : 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 practicesplus ideas for improvement! We collaborate across Tech to ensure platforms and services are production-ready, contributing to both platform and software codebases.

What Youll 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.

- Theres 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 organization.

We Are a Match Because You Have :

- 6+ 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).

- Experience with server-side software engineering (Python, Go, Java, BASH etc).

- Design experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and related technologies.

- Strong understanding of monitoring and alerting, with a focus on performance monitoring and tracing instrumentation & SLI/SLO/SLAs.

- Experience decoupling monolith services a plus.

- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (e.g., Git).

- Excellent communication skills across engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders alike.

- Knowledge of configuration management tools (e.g., Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Terraform).

- Passion for leading a large, cross-cutting technical initiative to delivery, cross-functional consensus building and influencing design decisions.

- Ample experience gathering and balancing requirements from technical and business stakeholders, and reaching consensus on prioritization.

- Experience mentoring engineers and leading code reviews.