Senior Data Engineer - L3
Wayfair · Posted Sep 11
Online retail platform for home furnishings, furniture, decor, and housewares
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About the role
As a Senior Data Engineer at Wayfair, you will be part of the Data Engineering team in a role that is inherently multi-functional, working with Client Experience, Data Scientists, Analysts, Application teams across the company, as well as all other Data Engineering squads at Wayfair. The team is looking for someone with a love for data, the ability to handle ambiguous requirements and iterate quickly, and a belief that data-driven processes lead to phenomenal products. You will drive the design, building, and launching of new data models, data pipelines, and data products focused on Search and Recommendations and the Marketing Org.
What you will do
- Drive the design, building, and launching of new data models, data pipelines, and data products focussed on Search and Recommendations and Marketing Org.
- Helping teams push the boundaries of insights, creating new product features using data, and powering machine learning models.
- Build cross-functional relationships to understand data needs, build key metrics and standardize their usage across the organization.
- Utilize current and leading edge technologies in software engineering, big data, streaming, and cloud infrastructure
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor/Master degree in Computer Science or related technical subject area or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 7+ years relevant work experience in the Data Engineering field with web scale data sets.
- Demonstrated strength in data modeling, ETL development and data lake architecture.
- Data Warehousing Experience with Big Data Technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Presto, Airflow etc.).
- Coding proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Python, Scala, etc)
- Experience building/operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing and query performance tuning skills of large data sets.
- Industry experience as a Big Data Engineer and working along cross functional teams such as Software Engineering, Analytics, Data Science with a track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets.
- Strong business acumen.
- Experience leading large-scale data warehousing and analytics projects, including using GCP technologies – Big Query, Dataproc, GCS, Cloud Composer, Dataflow or related big data technologies in other cloud platforms like AWS, Azure etc.
- Experience providing technical leadership and mentor other engineers for the best practices on the data engineering space
- Strong project management skills, including work prioritization, planning, and task delegation
- Ability to effectively communicate (both written and verbally) technical information and the results of engineering design at all levels of the organization
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Wayfair
Wayfair is a leading online e-commerce platform specializing in home furnishings, decor, home improvement, and housewares. The company offers millions of items from thousands of global suppliers, serving customers across North America and Europe. Wayfair also operates several specialty and luxury retail brands including AllModern, Birch Lane, Joss & Main, and Perigold.
- Industry
- E-Commerce
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2002
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $4.9B raised
- 2026-05-13Post Ipo Debt$700M
Leadership
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Co-Chairman
Co-Founder and Co-Chairman
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer
Chief Technology Officer
President
Recent coverage
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