Senior Software Engineer II, SRE

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 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.

Salary Range:

$179,000.00 - $210,000.00

What’s the role?

Etsy’s Services Site Reliability Engineering team is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join us in our mission of building and supporting reliable large scale infrastructure and applications to power Search 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’s Search Infrastructure. As an SRE at Etsy, you’ll have the privilege of playing a support role for our developers to help them leverage the infrastructure we build and manage as well as assume ownership of a multitude of systems and ensure their reliability, scalability and maintainability.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Engineering Manager, 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 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 Search at Etsy and aim to utilize aggressive automation to ensure our infrastructure scales independently of the size of the team.

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 Buildkite pipelines to help deploy applications and codebases.

• 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