Senior Software Engineer, Etsy
Foundation Site Reliability Engineer
$152-178k
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
Job no longer available
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$152-178k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To keep human connection at the heart of commerce.
Role
Who you are
- You are an experienced software engineer, where the last 5 years are in systems/infrastructure engineering or SRE or DevOps roles, preferably in a cloud environment
- Proficiency with one or more programming languages (PHP, Python, Go, Ruby or other equivalent languages)
- Experience with cloud architectures (GCP, AWS), working with VM based architectures
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure As Code tooling like Terraform and configuration management tooling like Chef/Ansible is essential
- Kubernetes or other container orchestration frameworks experience will be useful
- Hands on debugging experience with Linux based operating systems
- You take the lead in directing and implementing solutions to significantly complex, unscoped problems
- Have a “leave it better than you found it” mentality, and are willing to work with and improve on code you did not originally write
- You understand that being an effective software engineer is as much about communicating with people as it is about writing code
What the job involves
- Design, develop and implement highly scalable and maintainable systems by contributing at all levels of our infrastructure stack using technologies like Chef, Terraform, GKE, GoLang, Prometheus, Consul
- Work with the Engineering at large to gain a deep understanding of Etsy Engineering and how SRE can best support their needs (i.e product engineering, risk, database infrastructure teams, and understand up/downstream impacts)
- Empathy, communication, and technical skills are valued equally
- Support the day-to-day operations of running a large scale application, including monitoring, measuring, and troubleshooting infrastructure and services
- Manage a wide variety of systems ranging from internal services to external services supporting millions of requests to etsy.com daily
- Continually automate away toil that can be burdensome for teams
- Develop automation and processes to enable teams to deploy, manage, configure, scale, and monitor their applications
- Identify and implement application reliability and availability improvements
- Automating continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines, as well as supporting the underlying infrastructure
- 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. A hike in transaction fees and the introduction of mandatory marketing fees for artists with high turnovers created significant discontent amongst sellers. Despite this, Etsy continues to connect artists and consumers, attracting 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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