Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Bangalore, India and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements.
Who We Are:
Wayfair runs the largest custom e-commerce large parcel network in the United States, approximately 1.6 million square meters of logistics space. The nature of the network is inherently a highly variable ecosystem that requires flexible, reliable, and resilient systems to operate efficiently.
We are looking for a passionate Software Engineer to join our team that manages Wayfair's core messaging infrastructure. Our team is responsible for the health, scalability, and evolution of our centralized Kafka platform, which powers critical, real-time data movement across the entire company.
In this role, you will help evolve the Core data services that power Wayfair's real-time data at scale. You will design and build highly resilient, high-throughput systems, and develop self-service tooling that enables engineering teams across Wayfair to adopt and operate on the platform with confidence. This role has a direct impact on the scalability, reliability, and operational excellence of Wayfair's e-commerce ecosystem.
What You'll Do:
- Partner with your business stakeholders to provide them with transparency, data, and resources to make informed decisions.
- Be a technical leader within and across the teams you work with.
- Drive architectural decisions and hands-on development for high-throughput, real-time messaging systems.
- Obsessively focus on production readiness for the team including testing, monitoring, deployment, documentation and proactive troubleshooting.
- Identify risks and gaps in technical approaches and propose solutions to meet team and project goals.
- Influence and contribute to the team's strategy and roadmap.
- A tenacity for learning and a strong curiosity for evolving distributed systems and messaging paradigms.
We Are a Match Because You Have:
- 3-5 years of experience Strong background building and operating data systems using Java (Spring Boot), Python, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) with mature CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Buildkite, Jenkins).
- Hands-on experience architecting and running distributed systems on cloud-native infrastructure using Docker, Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform, including stateful services (Redis, Aerospike).
- Deep observability mindset with practical experience implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools like Datadog, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, and defining actionable signals.
- Experience supporting large-scale data platforms, including batch and streaming pipelines, schedulers, and ingestion frameworks; familiarity with Kafka / PubSub, Airflow / Composer, Spark / Dataflow, Trino, BigQuery.
- Operational ownership of Tier-1 data services, with responsibility for freshness, latency, and completeness SLIs, handling backfills, replays, data incidents, and making cost-efficient design tradeoffs (streaming vs batch, compute vs storage).
Assistance For Individuals With Disabilities
Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accomodations for Applicants form.
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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 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, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.
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