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?

The Services SRE team at Etsy is looking for a Senior Software Engineer II to join our team and help maintain the core services that help Etsy buyers and sellers discover and celebrate handmade goods from all over the world.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager of Services SRE. In addition to salary, you will also be eligible for an equity package, an annual performance bonus, and our competitive benefits that support you and your family as part of your total rewards package at Etsy. 
 

For this role, we are considering candidates based in the United States. Candidates living within commutable distance of Etsy’s Brooklyn Office Hub or in the San Francisco Bay Area may be the first to be considered. For candidates within commutable distance, Etsy requires in-office attendance once or twice per week depending on your proximity to the office. Etsy offers different work modes to meet the variety of needs and preferences of our team. Learn more details about our  work modes and workplace safety policies here.

What’s this team like at Etsy?

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 Etsy search and aim to utilize aggressive automation to ensure our infrastructure scales independently of the size of the team. 

The technical staff at Etsy believes that code is craft, and that the work we do is part of a larger creative culture that includes the hundreds of thousands of inspired artists and designers who make Etsy such a unique marketplace. We believe that small, empowered, self-motivated teams can do big things. We believe in measuring everything, taking advantage of our pioneering continuous deployment system to ship code early and often, and keeping up a blameless culture based on trust and a commitment to learning. Learn more about our engineering philosophies, tools, and some of the challenges we’ve been solving on our Engineering blog: http://codeascraft.com/ 

What does the day-to-day look like?

• 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 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.

Qualities that will help you thrive in this role 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 with search technologies such as Lucene/Solr or Elasticsearch is a plus.

• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker is a plus.

• Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems and networking stack (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, SDN) is a plus.

• Experience with Grafana 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. 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.