Offer summary

Qualifications:

5+ years of experience with database technologies, particularly Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL., Strong familiarity with public cloud environments, preferably Google Cloud Platform, for at least 3 years., Experience in automation and infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code, ideally with Terraform and Puppet., Knowledge of large-scale distributed systems architecture and modern DevOps/SRE practices..

Key responsabilities:

Enable development teams to design and operate production data infrastructure including SQL Server and CloudSQL.

Collaborate with engineers to manage a petabyte-scale database environment in the cloud.

Write and maintain high-performance infrastructure code while adhering to technical standards and best practices.

Participate in on-call support rotations and mentor junior engineers in database management and operations.

Job description

Responsibilities:

Enable development teams in designing, scaling, and operating production data infrastructure including, but not limited to, CloudSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Pub/Sub, Kafka
Partner with other Engineers to operate a petabyte-scale database environment in a public cloud environment
Write clean, high-performance, and well tested, infrastructure code with a focus on reusability. (Puppet / Python / Terraform / Packer)
Create and maintain detailed documentation
Establish, maintain, and adhere to Wayfair technical standards, policies, and procedures
Recommend and implement infrastructure best practices in alignment with standard SRE principles and provide guidance on system performance and throughput expectations.
Path finding missions; taking existing platforms at Wayfair and helping move them to the cloud
Leverage software development skills to enable self-service deployment of distributed systems.
Participate and manage on-call and production support rotations to support and troubleshoot database issues off-hours and during promotional events
Mentor junior engineers to develop the next generation of Wayfair engineering

Requirements:

5+ years experience with database technologies, or strong familiarity and demonstrated ability to become expert
Specific experience with Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL and other relational and non-relational database platforms
3+ years of experience working in public cloud environments, preferably Google Cloud Platform
Experience in maintaining automation around infrastructure provisioning utilizing Infrastructure as a Code (preferably Terraform and Puppet)
Experience in utilizing Agile best practices for team workload management and prioritization setting
Experience in operating in a large scale database environment in an ecommerce environment
Knowledge of large-scale distributed systems architecture, design, implementation and performance tuning
Experience in modern DevOps/SRE practices such as CI/CD, performance monitoring, chaos engineering & load testing, and incident & problem management

Required profile