Platform Engineer III – Wayfair

Title of the Job: Platform Engineer III

Location: Toronto, ON

Job Description: Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Toronto, ON and will be expected to comply with their team’s hybrid work schedule requirements.Wayfair is on a mission to find the most talented engineers entering the tech world! Do you love innovating and creating new tools from scratch? We’re looking for engineers who love sharing ideas, collaborating to improve them, and being a part of the full software development process. Our engineers are enthusiastic problem solvers and our teams are highly collaborative.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. You will have the opportunity to work on one of the following teams:Service Integration: 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.What You’ll Do:

• 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.

We Are a Match Because You Have:

• 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
• 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)

Why You’ll Love Wayfair:

• Time Off:

• Paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Health & Wellness:

• Full Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA/FSA)
• Life Insurance
• Disability Protection (Short Term & Long Term Disability)
• Global Wellbeing: Gym/Fitness discounts (including US Peloton, Global ClassPass, and various regional gym memberships)
• Mental Health Support (Global Mental Health, Global Wayhealthy Recordings)
• Caregiver Services
• Financial Growth & Security:

• RRSP (Registered Retirement Savings Plan)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Financial Health Education (Knowledge of Financial Education – KOFE)
• Tax Advantaged Accounts
• Family Support:

• Family Planning Support
• Parental Leave
• Global Surrogacy & Adoption Policy
• Professional Development & Recognition:

• Rewards & Recognition
• Global Employee Anniversary Awards
• Paid Volunteer Work
• Unique Perks:

• Employee Discount
• Global Pod Outings
• Work/Life Balance:

• Emphasizing a supportive & flexible work environment that encourages a balance between personal and professional commitments

We are looking forward to your application!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, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice ( ). If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights under applicable privacy and data protection laws, please contact us at .

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