Staff Software Engineer I

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, Depop, or Elo7 you will tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human

Job Description

What’s the role?

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Orchestration Platform team to play a major role in driving the platform vision and strategy for the Machine Learning Orchestration services at Etsy. For the first year, you will be working directly with a Principal Systems Architect working on Bot Detection and Mitigation.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for implementing the strategy for the machine learning 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.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Engineering Manager and the base salary range will be $209,000-$245,000 USD per year. 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 who are either remote, flex, or office-based. Etsy offers different work modes to meet the variety of needs and preferences of our team. Learn more about our Flex and Office-based work modes and workplace safety policies here.

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.  

What does the day-to-day look like?

• Play a central 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

Qualities that will help you thrive in this role are:

• You have proven engineering and coding skills, data structure knowledge and ability to write high performance production quality code.
• You have experience working with functional programming languages and Scala
• 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 D