Etsy · 6 hours ago
Software Engineer II, SRE
Brooklyn, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Entry, Mid Level
$135K/yr - $175K/yr
2+ years expEtsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods, seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to support their mission of building and maintaining reliable large-scale infrastructure. The role involves developing scalable systems, managing infrastructure operations, and improving application reliability to ensure high availability for millions of users.
Consumer GoodsE-CommerceInternetRetailSales
Responsibilities
Develop and implement highly scalable and maintainable systems by contributing at multiple levels of our infrastructure stack using technologies like Chef, Terraform, GoLang, Python, Prometheus, CDNs 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
Qualification
Required
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 systems
Experience administering Linux servers in a production environment, ensuring high availability and optimal performance
Proficiency with one or more programming languages (PHP, Python, Go, Ruby or other equivalent languages)
Experience with cloud architectures (GCP, AWS), working with VM based architectures
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure As Code tooling like Terraform and configuration management tooling like Chef/Ansible is essential
Kubernetes or other container orchestration frameworks experience will be useful
Empathy, communication, and technical skills are valued equally
You take the lead in directing and implementing solutions to significantly complex, unscoped problems
Have a “leave it better than you found it” mentality, and are willing to work with and improve on code you did not originally write
You understand that being an effective software engineer is as much about communicating with people as it is about writing code
Benefits
Equity package
Annual performance bonus
Competitive benefits that support you and your family
Company
Etsy
Etsy is an e-commerce site and a smartphone application for buying and selling handmade and vintage items.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$747.26MKey Investors
Elliott Management Corp.Index VenturesAccel
2025-06-12Post Ipo Debt· $650M
2024-02-01Post Ipo Equity
2017-05-15Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Josh Silverman
CEO
Jim Connell
Staff Software Engineer
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