Description

What You’ll Do

  • Implement solutions and automation for managing petabyte-scale database environments
  • Improve observability by implementing monitoring, tracing and logging, enabling exposure of Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and adherence to Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
  • Implement a data-driven approach to performance and availability improvements to stakeholder database systems
  • Assist application teams in their journey to decouple large monolithic databases
  • Act as a lead engineer for production incidents to drive collaboration, resolution, identification of root cause, and changes required to prevent future occurrences
  • Participate in a follow the sun on-call rotation supporting and troubleshooting database issues off-hours and during promotional events
  • Design and implement self-service offerings for frictionless onboarding based on stakeholder requirements
  • Mentor junior engineers to develop the next generation of Wayfair engineering

What You’ll Need

  • 5+ years of experience in a senior engineering or technical lead role
  • 1+ years of experience with at least one of the following languages/frameworks: PowerShell, Python
  • Expertise in SQL Server - preferably, exposure or experience in at least one of the following cloud database technologies: Cloud SQL for Postgres, Cloud Spanner
  • Experience working with SQL Server's High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions 
  • Experience working with public cloud providers such as GCP, AWS, or Azure, and running database systems at large scales/volumes
  • Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management tools such as Terraform and Puppet
  • Proven experience in automating operational and manual database tasks 
  • Proven experience and successful track record of leading ambitious large scale projects as an individual contributor
  • Experience in leading complex technical projects and collaborating with other teams across organization boundaries
  • String written and oral communication skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with developers, vendors and leadership


 

Key Skills
Education

Any Graduate

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