Wayfair

Software Engineer III, Infrastructure and Backend Platforms

Wayfair
US Boston, MA, US
Onsite 2026-07-01
Announced salary
$159,500 - $192,500
Low
$105K
Median
$147K
High
$189K
Market in Boston · BLS OEWS 2025
Estimated net pay
$9,386 - $11,169
/month · 29% withheld
after tax & contributions · Single, no dependents

Job description

**Who We Are** 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 our 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! **What You Will Do*** Flex your strength and knowledge on Go, Java, DevOps, and service development environments. * Define and ensure services are built to industry best practices, including observability, architectural patterns, and inter\-team dependency mechanisms (like SLOs) * Drive high\-impact solutions at a team level, including inception, design, execution, and delivery following good design and coding practices * Write code to implement high\-quality, scalable, future\-proof services that will have effective system boundaries * Lead team planning and delivery meetings in a way that actively supports the goals and success of the team * Identify risks and gaps in technical approaches and propose solutions to meet the team’s technical vision * Work closely with product managers, designers, and peers to define project requirements and execution plans **What You Will Need*** 5\+ 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 contributing to 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 commu

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