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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 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 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