Software Engineer II, Foundation 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, 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?

Etsy’s Site Reliability Engineering team is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer, to join us in our mission of building and supporting reliable large scale 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.com. 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 Senior Engineering Manager, Foundation SRE and the base salary range will be 128,000.00 - 166,000.00 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.

This role requires your presence in Etsy’s Brooklyn Office once or twice per week depending on your proximity to the office. Candidates living within commutable distance of Etsy’s Brooklyn Office Hub may be the first to be considered. Learn more details about our work modes and workplace safety policies here.

What’s this team like at Etsy? 

• This team’s mission is to build and support world-class infrastructure that is responsible for the availability and reliability of the core infrastructure that powers etsy.com.

• The SRE team is committed to craft and maintain critical systems that power our 94M active buyers and 7.4M active sellers, with a goal of 99.95% uptime. 

• You’ll get to work with a group of industry leading SREs to help shape the future of how Etsy builds, deploys and maintains reliable infrastructure that can automatically scale to meet the needs of our customers.

• The SRE Team shares a common goal for making everything we touch better. All SRE are empowered to make improvements to our systems, even if those systems aren’t directly owned by your team.

What does the day-to-day look like?

• Develop and implement highly scalable and maintainable systems by contributing at multiple levels of our infrastructure stack using technologies like Chef, Terraform, GKE, GoLang, Python, Prometheus, Consul and more.

• Support the day-to-day operations of running a large scale application, including monitoring, measuring, and troubleshooting infrastructure and services

• Automate the upgrade procedures that range from Operating System upgrades to core application upgrades.

• Manage multiple aspects of Etsy’s core infrastructure, supporting millions of requests to etsy.com daily.

• Continually automate away toil that can be burdensome for teams.

• Develop automation and processes to enable teams to deploy, manage, configure, scale, and monitor their applications.

• Identify and implement application reliability and availability improvements.

• Automating continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines, as well as supporting the underlying infrastructure.

• 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 are an experienced software engineer, with at least 2 years experience in systems/infrastructure engineering or SRE or DevOps roles, preferably in a cloud environment.

• Ability to monitor system performance, analyze system logs, and perform tuning to ensure efficient operations on Linux platforms.

• Hands on debugging experience with Linux based operating sys