Senior Software Engineer, Etsy
Site Reliability Engineering
$179-210k
+ Equity package & annual performance bonus
More information about location
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
Be an early applicant
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$179-210k
+ Equity package & annual performance bonus
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To keep human connection at the heart of commerce.
Role
Who you are
- You have solid engineering and coding skills, data structure knowledge and ability to write high performance production quality code
- You have experience working with languages like Java, Scala, Python, Go or other equivalent languages
- You are a strong collaborator and communicator and you make the engineers around you grow and learn
- You have fundamental experience with infrastructure engineering and strong troubleshooting skills
- You have solid background and hands-on experience with Cloud technologies either Google Cloud or AWS
- Experience that is nice to have:
- Search technologies such as Vespa, Lucene/Solr, or Elasticsearch
- Kubernetes and Docker
- Automation and configuration management like Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible
- Unix/Linux operating systems and networking stack (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, SDN)
- Observability tooling like Grafana, Kusto, Honeycomb
- CI/CD tooling such as Argo, Buildkite, Bazel, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
What the job involves
- Etsy’s Services Site Reliability Engineering team is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join us in our mission of building and supporting reliable large scale infrastructure and applications to power Search Infrastructure
- The SRE team owns several aspects of business critical infrastructure and services that enable developers to efficiently build and deliver code as well as support the uptime of Etsy’s Search Infrastructure
- As an SRE at Etsy, you’ll have the privilege of playing a support role for our developers to help them leverage the infrastructure we build and manage as well as assume ownership of a multitude of systems and ensure their reliability, scalability and maintainability
- This is a full-time position reporting to the Engineering Manager, Services SRE
- The Services SRE team at Etsy builds and maintains the core services that help Etsy buyers and sellers discover and celebrate handmade goods from all over the world
- We own and operate all system components powering Search at Etsy and aim to utilize aggressive automation to ensure our infrastructure scales independently of the size of the team
- Design, build, and support the core infrastructure of our Search platform, including on-call production support rotations
- Work cross-functionally with various platform teams, ML teams, and product partners to build the next generation of our high availability search platform in the cloud
- Build and maintain Buildkite pipelines to help deploy applications and codebases
- Build and maintain observability and test tooling - logging, monitoring, distributed tracing, alerting, and offline test tools needed for search
- Practice continuous learning and agile delivery model to stay informed and focused on our deliverables
- Support GKE services and maintenance that includes software upgrades, performance tuning and GKE cluster tuning and optimization
- Build GKE tooling for Search Platform’s test environment and automate deployments
- Of course, this is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require! You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks, too, and that your job duties and responsibilities may change from time to time at Etsy's discretion, or otherwise applicable with local law
Our take
Created as an alternative to more corporate eCommerce sites, Etsy is a peer-to-peer (P2P) website where users buy and sell handmade crafts, vintage items, art, and photography. The online marketplace works similarly to Amazon and eBay, only with an emphasis on unique items rather than mass-produced merchandise.
Since its IPO in 2015, it has managed to hold its own in an increasingly competitive eCommerce industry, including from Amazon's handmade section that launched in 2015. Further, by providing sellers with ownership over pricing and branding, the site is attractive for those wanting to set up a business on an established platform.
However, the seller-side of Etsy is not without problems. The recent hike in transaction fees and the introduction of mandatory marketing fees for artists with high turnovers has created significant discontent amongst sellers. Etsy must reconcile these issues to ensure artists continue to operate on the same scale within the platform. It plans to attract shoppers with its message of extraordinary, handmade and affordable products.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2012
$40m
LATE VC
Aug 2010
$20m
SERIES E
Total funding: $91.7m
Company benefits
- Equity (offers vary by country)
- Performance bonuses
- Paid gender neutral parental leave
- Adoption and family planning
- Back-up care
- Volunteer time off
- Donation matching
- Employee resource groups
- Global virtual events
- Employer paid health benefits
- Fitness benefits
- Wellness programming
- Mental health benefits
- 401K matching/Pension contributions
Company HQ
Downtown Brooklyn, NY
Leadership
Josh Silverman
(CEO)Previously senior executive at eBay, CEO of Shopping.com, CEO of Skype and President of Consumer Products & Services at American Express.
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