Site Reliability Engineer, Etsy

• 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
• Able to effectively monitor system performance via metrics, logs, and traces, analyze logs, and perform tuning to ensure efficient Linux operations
• Hands on debugging experience with Linux based operating systems
• Experience administering Linux servers in a production environment, ensuring high availability and optimal performance
• Understanding the difference between SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs and what makes them effective
• 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
• 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

• Etsy’s Runtime 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 Engineering Manager, Runtime SRE
• 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 and its mobile apps
• 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 collaborate with leading SRE professionals to influence 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 is dedicated to continuous improvement. All SREs are empowered and encouraged to enhance any system, even those not directly owned by your team
• Develop and implement highly scalable and maintainable systems by contributing at multiple levels of our infrastructure stack using technologies like Chef, Terraform, Go, PHP, 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 such as asset delivery, async compute processing, and scheduled tasks management–supporting millions of requests to etsy.com and its mobile apps 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
• Lead and participate in a world-class incident resolution process designed around a blameless learning culture
• 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

• Equity (offers vary by country)
• Performance bonuses
• Paid gender neutral parental leave
• Adoption and family planning
• ​​​​​​​Back-up care
• Volunteer time off
• Donation matching
• Employee resource groups
• Global virtual events
• Employer paid health benefits
• ​​​​​​​Fitness benefits
• Wellness programming
• Mental health benefits
• 401K matching/Pension contributions

Total funding: $91.7m

Created as an alternative to more corporate eCommerce sites, Etsy is a peer-to-peer (P2P) website where users buy and sell handmade crafts, vintage items, art, and photography. The online marketplace works similarly to Amazon and eBay, only with an emphasis on unique items rather than mass-produced merchandise.