Senior Staff Platform Engineer – Bengaluru

Wayfair; Santa Fe (NM); Remote; USD 27,552 - 41,328; Full time

Job summary

Wayfair in Bengaluru seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to act as local SME, planning and building a platform that connects a wide range of internal and external frameworks while shaping the technical direction.

The role requires 10+ years in software design, leading high-scale production systems, and deep experience with cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure), microservices, and event-driven architectures. You will coach engineers, drive standards, and collaborate across teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software design experience and leadership in teams.
• Experience driving engineering changes in large-scale production environments.
• Cloud-based, microservice architectures with event-driven design.
• Ability to guide teams, influence results and set technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Act as local SME, plan and build a platform connecting diverse frameworks.
• Lead a cross-functional platform team and drive technical decisions.
• Design and deliver high-quality, scalable, reliable services.
• Champion code quality, testing, review and documentation practices.
• Identify risks and gaps, proposing fixes that meet security/architecture standards.
• Guide the team’s technical direction and contribute to standards.
• Coach and develop other engineers through pairing and training.
• Be a trusted technical authority across the regional organization.
• Shape culture and standards for Wayfair’s Bengaluru site.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud architecture

Event-driven systems

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

Spring

GraphQL

Java

NoSQL

Job description

Wayfair in Bengaluru seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to act as local SME, planning and building a platform that connects a wide range of internal and external frameworks while shaping the technical direction.

The role requires 10+ years in software design, leading high-scale production systems, and deep experience with cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure), microservices, and event-driven architectures. You will coach engineers, drive standards, and collaborate across teams.