Senior Engineering Manager, Etsy
$252-328k
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eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
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eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
1001+ employees
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$252-328k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To keep human connection at the heart of commerce.
Role
Who you are
- Do you have a passion for training, serving and scaling machine learning models?
- Are you excited by the challenges of building a platform for diverse machine learning use cases?
- Are you motivated to lead and develop ICs at different stages of their careers? If so, this could be the perfect match
- A strong track record of developing and serving machine learning models at scale, with at least 4 years in a leadership capacity (tech lead or EM) and 2 years as an engineering manager
- You like to be deep in the technical work, but you can also build partnerships across teams in a highly collaborative environment
- Passion for building platforms that don't just work, but that are easy to maintain and extend, and are delightful to use
- You are a strong collaborator, communicator, and coach and you are passionate about helping the engineers around you grow and learn
- You have 5+ years of experience building, iterating and solving complex problems with a significant backend component
- Background and hands-on experience with Cloud technologies (Google Cloud, AWS, Kubernetes) is a plus
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Models team
- In this role, you will manage a team of motivated ICs to build the next generation of Etsy's models platform, which in turn will enable your customer teams to improve the quality of search, ads, recommendations, and other ML applications for nearly 100M buyers and over 5M sellers
- This opportunity is a full-time position reporting to the Director of Engineering for ML Enablement
- The Machine Learning Enablement Initiative builds and maintains a complete ecosystem of ML systems including our feature & embeddings store, model training, serving, orchestration and testing infrastructure
- The Models team is responsible for the model catalog, APIs, and serving infrastructure that runs our online models at high scale (millions of inferences per second). It is a small team historically focused on operations, but transitioning to play a more direct role in the application layer
- The team is presently leading Etsy's migration from Tensorflow to Pytorch, building upon an innovative architecture designed in-house and based on KServe, NVIDIA Triton, Apache Arrow, and Ray. We are using this opportunity to fill in historical gaps in automation, integration, and standardization across the ML platform
- We aspire to unify modeling approaches across all major ML development teams at Etsy. This is a big, challenging opportunity to influence how models are created, trained, and deployed across the entire company!
- Meet with customers to understand their latest use cases. Work with your team and partners to translate those use cases into concrete requirements. Offer an informed point of view on engineering, system design, and machine learning considerations
- Keep track of ongoing issues (stability, performance, cost) with models on the platform, and identify short-term fixes and long-term platform improvements
- Maintain a product roadmap, lead agile processes and plan workstreams for a team of 4 ICs. Occasionally lead multi-functional "tiger teams" for dedicated projects
- Coach your ICs and support their career development trajectories
- Own and maintain the team's customer-facing surfaces: documentation, code examples, metrics, dashboards, UIs, launch announcements, etc
- We are proud of our engineering culture that encourages career growth and learning in a blameless environment. You can learn more about our philosophies, tools, and some of the challenges we’ve been solving on our Engineering blog
- 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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