Engineering Manager, Etsy
Core Infrastructure SRE
$191-249k
+Eligible for an equity package & an annual performance bonus
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office (Brooklyn, NY)
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
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eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$191-249k
+Eligible for an equity package & an annual performance bonus
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office (Brooklyn, NY)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To keep human connection at the heart of commerce.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience directly managing engineers - including providing leadership, mentorship, feedback, and investing in their career growth
- You have experience managing SRE teams that are responsible for the uptime of critical production infrastructure
- You have a passion for building highly scalable, fault tolerant systems and understand good systems design
- You can make engineering tradeoffs based on problem and context
- You can collaborate effectively with both junior and senior team members
- Your enthusiasm and passion for learning and improving are contagious which shows through your experience empowering others to grow!
What the job involves
- Etsy’s Site Reliability Engineering team is seeking an Engineering Manager of Core Infrastructure, to join us in our mission of building and supporting reliable large scale 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.com, our API Infrastructure and much more!
- This is a full-time position reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager, Foundation SRE
- The Core Infrastructure SRE team is an SRE team in the Etsy Foundation SRE org that’s responsible for building, maintaining and upgrading the core infrastructure that powers Etsy.com, our API infrastructure and much more!
- We use tools like Terraform, Chef, GCP, Ruby, Golang and many more to manage our infrastructure resources
- We’re responsible for building and maintaining the compute and networking infrastructure that powers etsy.com
- We ensure that our infrastructure is resilient to failures, traffic scaling events and automated patching events
- We build and maintain multiple deployments pipeline platforms that enable our developer community to make infrastructure changes safely and efficiently
- Lead a team of 5 to 8 SREs. At Etsy, engineering managers have a limited role in the hands-on process of building software, but a very large role in orchestrating and coaching engineers to achieve results together
- Work across teams with peer engineering leadership, product development teams and others to help support their infrastructure needs
- Prioritize, scope, plan, develop, and deliver projects at various completion stages or definitions when started. Planning and delivery of your team’s roadmap
- Foster a collaborative and high-performing engineering culture on your team through mentorship, development practices, and career growth opportunities
- Partake in technical conversations with your engineers and leverage your previous experience to provide technical direction and influence technical decisions
- Work with other leaders within engineering to develop and evolve engineering processes and standard methodologies
- Serve as a coach, mentor, and advocate for the engineers on your team
- Participate in the end-to-end recruiting process, hiring, and onboarding exceptional engineering talent
- Foster a culture of learning, collaboration and thoughtful delivery on your teams
- 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
Application process
- If you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please share your resume with us and feel free to include a cover letter if you'd like
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
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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 values
- We commit to our craft - Our work has the power to change lives. That’s why we strive to learn continuously and excel at what we do
- We minimize waste - Time, resources, and energy are precious, so we focus only on what will have the greatest impact
- We embrace differences - Diverse teams are stronger, and inclusive cultures are more resilient. When we seek out different perspectives, we make better decisions and build better products
- We dig deeper - The best solutions to meaningful challenges are rarely easy or obvious. We stay curious, balance our intuition with insights, and decide with confidence
- We lead with optimism - We believe in our mission, and we believe in each other. We see the world as it is, set ambitious goals, and inspire one another with generosity of spirit. Together, we reimagine what is possible
Company HQ
Downtown Brooklyn, NY
Articles
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.
People progressing
Became the Director of International Strategy and Operations after a year and 2 months as a senior manager in the division. After nearly 5 years in that role, they became Director of Marketing and International Strategy & Operations, and six months after that was promoted to Senior Director in that same department.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Etsy
- Diversity is a priority at Etsy, owned by everyone:
- A diverse workforce is critical to Etsy’s success—it makes us a stronger, better, more resilient and more relevant company. We have an inclusive culture and each of us actively creates opportunities for underrepresented groups to join, thrive and advance at Etsy
- We welcome all perspectives:
- As individuals, we invite a variety of viewpoints and experiences—especially when they conflict with our own. We encourage questions more than statements, and provide a safe environment in which all employees can surface and discuss concerns
- We measure and share openly:
- We contribute to broader progress by evaluating, iterating and transparently communicating our successes and failures internally and externally
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