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 Senior 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 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?

• Standups, 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.

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