Senior Software Engineer II, Developer Platform

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

Job Description

What’s the role?

We are looking for a tenured Senior Engineer to help lead improvements in Etsy’s development workflows and environments.

As a leading Senior Developer Platform Engineer you will be architecting and building infrastructure to help support and enable other developers to build and deliver their code. You’ll be improving our legacy systems and advancing the future of our engineering architecture. Throughout these projects you’ll need to use new frameworks and technologies to tackle a wide variety of issues which will further improve your own abilities. Do you find happiness in solving problems and learning new things? If so, this could be the perfect match!

This is a full-time position reporting to the Engineering Manager, Developer Platform and the base salary range will be 171,000 - 201,000 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 team focuses on increasing developer velocity and decreasing engineering friction while using industry standard tooling
• We work closely with other infrastructure, product, and SRE teams to help ensure consistency between development and production
• We are actively working on the SDLC, CI/CD, and infrastructure architecture at Etsy as well as improving the developers working environment
• Everyone has fun and enjoys working with and getting to know each other and appreciates a good work/life balance

What does the day-to-day look like?

• Stand-ups, Sprint planning & Retros among other agile SCRUM ceremonies
• On-call rotations and Slack support for our engineering team “customers”
• Pull request reviews and discussions with a focus on quality software engineering practices
• Documentation creation and updating with clear protocols for other engineers to follow autonomously
• Collaboration with a large amount of people and teams to solve common goals
• 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:

• Ability to learn, and lead autonomously and have strong research capabilities
• Work collaboratively with engineers of varying expertise and tenure
• Appreciate the landing of a project vs just launching a feature
• Well organized and detailed with a strong appreciation for tests and documentation
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code via Terraform or Chef as well as other frameworks
• Knowledge and understanding of non-production environments, CI/CD, and SDLC workflows and pipelines

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