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Senior Engineer, Development Platforms m/f

Wayfair GmbH, Berlin
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Full time
Docker, Jenkins, Java, Node.js, Github

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Senior Engineer, Development Platforms m/f

Wayfair’s Development Platforms team is looking for a Senior Engineer to help us make software development a delightful experience for more than 1,000 engineers. You'll build world-class tools, systems, lead the way in automation, grow relationships with dozens of talented engineering teams, and become a force multiplier for for an engineering organization that is experiencing massive growth. Solving technical problems at the human level will be your superpower.

What does a Development Platforms Engineer do?

  • Envision how engineering-wide tools and systems such as version control, code deployment, custom command-line tools, alerting and logging infrastructure, automated testing platforms, and more all come together to create a delightful engineering experience.
  • Proactively reach out to teams to build relationships, discover opportunities, and champion changes which reduce friction in the Wayfair engineering ecosystem.
  • Distill their years of experience in the industry to apply best practices, quality standards, and architectural decisions to an ever-growing codebase in the midst of a rapidly moving engineering organization.
  • Drive architectural decisions that shape the way 1,000+ software engineers at Wayfair get their work done.
  • Be a relentless advocate for the engineering experience by gathering feedback, proposing solutions, and taking ideas from proof-of-concept to production.
  • Contributes materially to the evolution of shared library code in all of Wayfair's supported programming languages.
  • Have experience managing large scale software systems and/or teams, either in an open- or closed-source setting.
  • Understand that today’s best practices eventually become tomorrow’s bad habits. Always challenging your own personal tools to find better / more efficient ways of getting things done.

About you:

  • Extensive experience in owning and evolving a technical domain or product
  • Strong proficiency with at least one of the following languages: PHP, Python, NodeJS, Java
  • Experience with at least one of the following products: Jenkins, Hudson, Travis, Chef, Puppet
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or Helm is a plus, but not required
  • Experience in CI/CD or a background in DevOps would be rather awesome, too

For bonus points, have:

  • A good sense of humor and an above-average appreciation level of memes
  • Experience with Puppet, Docker (or other forms of containerization), Vagrant, VirtualBox or VMware, Selenium and/or Codeception
  • An active GitHub account
  • Experience presenting at meetups and/or conferences
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