Staff SRE, Developer Platform
Etsy
Company Description
Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect entrepreneurs with buyers around the world. Etsy, Inc.'s 'house of brands' portfolio has expanded to now include four individually distinct ecommerce brands – Etsy, fashion resale marketplace Depop, musical instrument marketplace Reverb, and Brazil-based handmade goods marketplace Elo7. As an Etsy employee, you’ll tackle unique problems alongside talented coworkers committed to Keeping Commerce Human. We're large enough that you'll focus on meaningful, complex challenges, but small enough that you can make a rewarding impact.
Job Description
The Developer Platform team at Etsy builds and maintains core development infrastructure that enables Etsy developers to write and test code. We own and operate developer environments and supporting tools 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/
This role is (eventually) located in one of our Brooklyn or San Francisco offices, or remote within all U.S. states and Canada, except Hawaii and Alaska. Etsy offers three different work modes to meet the variety of needs and preferences of our team: Flex mode for candidates who are comfortable traveling to an office location 2+ times per week, Remote mode, and Office-based mode. Learn more about our flexible work modes and vaccination policy here.
About the Role
- Design, build and support the core infrastructure of our developer platform, including on-call production support rotations.
- Work cross-functionally with various platform teams, security and product partners to build the next generation of our highly flexible development platform in the cloud.
- Build and maintain observability tooling - logging, monitoring, distributed tracing, alerting and associated tooling.
- Practice continuous learning and agile delivery model to stay informed and focused on our deliverables.
Qualifications
About You
- You have Principal/Staff level engineering and coding skills, data structure knowledge, and the ability to write high-performance production quality code, with at least 6-8 years experience working at scale as an engineer.
- You have experience working with languages like PHP, 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 the following is an advantage:
- Elasticsearch, Kubernetes and Docker, Unix/Linux operating systems and networking stack (e.g., TCP/IP, routing), Grafana.
- Distributed Tracing, Open Telemetry, Open Census, Open Tracing, etc.
Additional Information
If you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please send a cover letter and resume telling us why you'd be right for the position. As you've hopefully 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 write to us and tell us what you're all about.
Our Promise
At Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace makes us a more relevant, more competitive, and more resilient company. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Etsy is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.
For U.S. roles only:
Many Etsy roles are open to remote candidates, and you'll be able to identify which ones within the location header of each job description. We're open to remote hires from all U.S. states except Hawaii and Alaska. For candidates who will work remotely from Colorado, visit this link for information related to Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.
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