Software Engineer II, Infrastructure and Backend Platforms

Who We Are

At Wayfair we are well on the way to becoming the world’s number one online destination for all things home. Our core belief is that everyone should live in a home they love. We make this possible by ensuring our 24 million customers have all the technology and innovation they need at their fingertips, giving them access to more than 33 million products from our 23,000 global suppliers.

In the Storefront team, we are the first impression of a customer’s shopping experience; we own the design and implementation of the customer‑facing website and partner with Product, Experience Design, Analytics and business leaders across Wayfair to build technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, measurable ways.

The Storefront Backend Platform team is responsible for building, maintaining, and supporting the core infrastructure and architecture that Storefront teams use to develop and deploy backend services. While Wayfair continues its technical transformation journey the SF BE Plat team is also out in front doing exploratory work, partnering with the central Infrastructure teams, and crafting service platform norms, tools, and patterns.

If you love to solve real business problems at scale, in a fast‑paced, high‑growth and agile environment, this is the role for you!

• Flex your strength and knowledge on Go, Java, Dev Ops, and service development environments.
• Contribute to developing platform services that are built to industry best practices, including observability, architectural patterns, and reliability.
• Write code to implement high‑quality, scalable, future‑proof services that will have effective system boundaries.
• Participate in team planning and delivery meetings in a way that actively supports the goals and success of the team.
• Identify risks and gaps in your assigned work and surface them to team leads.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and peers to define project requirements and execution plans.

• 3+ years of experience in engineering, with a preference for candidates with a mix of start‑up and large‑company experience. eComm domain expertise is a bonus.
• Hands‑on experience delivering software within high‑growth environments at scale.
• Experienced in designing and building large‑scale, cloud‑based systems across various projects.
• Experience operating distributed services at scale, including familiarity with observability tools, logging techniques, troubleshooting, and incident response.
• Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience driving solutions forward and ability to influence results.
• Expertise with one or more modern programming language (such as Python, Java, C#, Scala, GO, or others).
• Experience with one or more common open source platforms, tools and frameworks, e.g., Kafka, Kubernetes, Containerization, Java microservices, GraphQL APIs, Aerospike, etc.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Experience with Cloud Services and Containerized Infrastructure
• Experience with devOps and CI/CD systems and best practices
• Experience with various automated testing and deployment approaches and tools
• Knowledgeable of microservice architecture and event‑driven design patterns
• Technical documentation experience

• 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 Class Pass, and various regional gym memberships)
  • Mental Health Support (Global Mental Health, Global Way healthy Recordings)
  • Caregiver Services
• Financial Growth & Security:
  • 401K Matching (Employee Matching Program)
  • 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
  • U.S.…