At Wayfair, we are looking to strengthen and grow our infrastructure team by bringing on board a talented Software Engineering Manager. We are a small focused team tasked with building, improving and running Wayfair’s Kubernetes infrastructure with the goal of improving developer velocity and scalability. Wayfair is one of the largest GCP customers and with our continued growth, you’ll have an opportunity to lead and grow your team and solve complex problems as Wayfair doubles in size.
As a Senior Manager you’ll have a multitude of opportunities to flex your strengths as well as learn new things while directly assisting our internal customers. We contribute to (and create) bleeding edge open source projects and continuously push the envelope to explore the future of eCommerce and distributed infrastructure systems. While you will be working on containers and Kubernetes, extensive experience is not needed as long as you are a fast learner and can demonstrate strong fundamentals in one of software engineering, site reliability, or infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers responsible for Wayfair’s Kubernetes platform
- Build, design and implement robust and scalable APIs and infrastructure automation.
- Contribute to design and implementation of CI/CD on top of Kubernetes / cloud platforms.
- Improve and maintain the software and infrastructure that your team develops and operates.
- Provide guidance and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to streamline and improve adoption of Kubernetes and Cloud within Wayfair.
What is in our scope:
- The cluster infrastructure
- Cluster design and provisioning
- Interactions with the infrastructure via the API
- Supporting the Wayfair Kubernetes community
What You’ll Need:
- 3+ years of experience in leading high performance teams in the Platform Engineering / SRE domain
- 5+ years of experience of server-side software engineering experience (Java or Go or Perl or Python etc) and/or
- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure roles with strong fundamentals in Linux.
- 5+ years of experience operating with TCP/IP, load-balancing, security and operating production environments.
- Involvement in some on-premise to cloud migration, or some container adoption strategy.
What We’ll Gladly Offer:
Highly competitive compensation packages (comprising of Base Salary, Bonuses and Equity),
Full ownership of your wellbeing with our unlimited “Personal Time Off”,
Paid volunteering work,
Contribution to private pension,
Commuting schemes (car, bike, public transport),
Extensive internal training platform,
Free access to LinkedIn e-learning courses and programs,
Comprehensive financial scheme for Learning & Development opportunities and continuous education,
Access to German language courses,
Health & Sport memberships,
Virtual child care,
Global Wellbeing Program,
Employee discount for Wayfair purchases,
Corporate benefits.
Full relocation support plus VISA and sponsorship
About Wayfair Inc.
Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or Berlin, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.
No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re a community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate our differences, and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and well-positioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees, customers, community, and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair – and world – for all. Every voice, every perspective matters. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or genetic information.