Senior Software Engineer I

Posted:
7/17/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico ⋅ Ciudad de México, Mexico

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
AI & Machine Learning ⋅ Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Remote

Company Description
Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect millions of entrepreneurs with millions of buyers around the world. As an Etsy Inc. employee, whether a team member of Etsy, Reverb, or Depop, you will tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human.

What’s the role?

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our ML Orchestration Platform team working us on building and managing the platforms and applications that powers our Search, Ads, Trust & Safety, and Recommendations systems.
 

As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for building critical components of the orchestration platform at Etsy. Different teams use our innovative orchestration layer that in turn will help nearly 100M buyers and over 5M sellers navigate Etsy’s extensive marketplace and deliver many more outstanding customer experiences. Do you find joy in big picture thinking and playing long term while driving business critical metrics? If so, this could be the perfect match.

What’s this team like at Etsy?

  • The Machine Learning Enablement Initiative builds and maintains Machine Learning systems that help all Etsy customers quickly resolve issues through intuitive self-service tools and human, real support experiences. The Orchestration group builds and maintains the platform and applications that powers our Search, Ads, Trust & Safety, and Recommendations systems.

  • We work on meaningful, complex challenges, but small enough that you can make a rewarding impact

  • We build platforms & services to solve problems at scale

  • We are a platform team with a product driven mentality

  • We drive innovation using our Machine Learning systems in effective and creative ways.  

 

This opportunity is a full-time position reporting to an Engineering Manager. This position will be in Mexico City or for remote candidates based in Mexico. Etsy is one of the largest global marketplace platforms in the world, and offers three work modes to meet our team's various needs and preferences: Flex mode for candidates who are comfortable traveling to an office location 4+ times per month, Remote mode, and Office-based mode. Learn more about our flexible work modes and vaccination policy here.

 

What does the day-to-day look like?

  • Play a role in building a real time Orchestration Platform and services that will empower multiple business critical Machine Learning use cases at Etsy

  • Design, build and support the core services/infrastructure of our orchestration layer platform, including on-call production support rotations.

  • Work cross-functionally with various platform teams, Machine Learning teams and product partners to build the next generation of our high availability retrieval platform in the cloud.

  • Practice continuous learning and agile delivery model to stay informed and focused on our deliverables.

  • We are proud to have an 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.


Qualities that will help you thrive in this role are:

  • You have a strong track record of working with Scala and functional programming

  • You have proven engineering and coding skills, data structure knowledge and ability to write high performance production quality code.

  • You are a strong collaborator and communicator and you make the engineers around you grow and learn.

  • 5+yr experience in building, iterating and troubleshooting solutions to complex problems with a significant backend component

  • You have built distributed services with technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Spark, etc

  • You have fundamental experience with infrastructure engineering and strong troubleshooting skills.

  • Background and hands-on experience with Cloud technologies (Google Cloud or AWS) is a plus.

  • Experience with Machine Learning is a plus

Additional Information

What's Next
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. As we hope you've seen already, Etsy is a place that values individuality and variety. We don't want you to be like everyone else -- we want you to be like you! So tell us what you're all about.

Our Promise
At Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace furthers relevance, resilience, and longevity. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Etsy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during any part of the interview process, please let your recruiter know. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skills.

Etsy

Website: https://www.etsy.com/

Headquarter Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Employee Count: 1001-5000

Year Founded: 2005

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Equity

Industries: Consumer Goods ⋅ E-Commerce ⋅ Internet ⋅ Retail ⋅ Sales