Remote Data Reliability Engineer - Cloud & Kafka Expert

MaziCTools; United States; Remote; USD 34,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayfair is seeking a Data Reliability Engineering expert in Oregon, USA. You will compose spotless, elite execution and well-tested foundation code (Python, Terraform, Packer) with an emphasis on reusability.

The role includes mentoring a 6-8 person design/engineering cohort and acting as the technical fence for the group. You will drive architecture, enforce best practices, and help migrate existing platforms to the cloud while collaborating with development teams to plan, scale, and operate

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree required.
• Experience in DevOps or cloud data platforms.
• Experience delivering data infrastructure in cloud environments.
• Strong mentoring and leadership for teams of 6–8 engineers.
• Proficient in building reliable data pipelines and services.

Responsibilities

• Compose clean, tested, reusable infrastructure code (Manikin/Python/Terraform/Packer).
• Provide architectural direction and mentorship to a team of 6–8 engineers.
• Serve as the technical firewall for the group, solving complex issues.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation.
• Establish and enforce infrastructure principles and practices in line with SRE standards.
• Support development teams in planning, scaling, and operating cloud-based data systems (CloudSQL, Firestore, Pub/Sub, Kafka, Dataproc, Dataflow).
• Help migrate existing platforms to the cloud and elevate engineering practices.

Skills

DevOps

Cloud data platforms

SRE fundamentals

Mentoring

Python/Java/ETL

Education

Bachelor Degree

Tools

GCP

AWS

Job description

Wayfair is seeking a Data Reliability Engineering expert in Oregon, USA. You will compose spotless, elite execution and well-tested foundation code (Python, Terraform, Packer) with an emphasis on reusability.

The role includes mentoring a 6-8 person design/engineering cohort and acting as the technical fence for the group. You will drive architecture, enforce best practices, and help migrate existing platforms to the cloud while collaborating with development teams to plan, scale, and operate