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, Depop, or Elo7 – you’ll 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 Senior Data Engineer to join the Core Experimentation Infrastructure squad within the Experimentation Platform and Science team to build and maintain a world class experiment infrastructure for Etsy’s internal experimentation platform. In doing so, you will enable and empower users to dig deeper through richer, more accessible data available in the platform! The platform is critical for the company’s product development success, and teams across Etsy use the platform to learn, make product decisions, and measure the impact of new features.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Senior Manager, Data Science. 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 flexible work options and vaccination policy here.

What’s this team like at Etsy?

• On Core Experimentation Infrastructure, we work to accelerate Etsy’s product roadmap execution and to provide richer, more trustworthy, and accessible data.
• We work closely with our partner teams under Experimentation Platform and Science as well as engineers and data scientists across various product and enablement teams

What does the day-to-day look like?

• Implement improvements for Etsy’s internal experimentation platform related to metric calculations and definitions, audience segmentation, and data aggregation.
• Scope and own work to incorporate analytical and statistical frameworks into an existing architecture from ideation through completion.
• Optimize complex workflows, taking into account speed, reliability, monitoring, and dependency management.
• Collaborate with team members to dig into issues with experiment data collection.
• Act as the last line of defense for system failures owned by the team.
• Mentor junior and senior engineers on the team.
• Collaborate with external partners and customers throughout the company to develop innovative solutions to sophisticated business problems. 
• 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 have a passion for building data related products and tooling and understand good systems design. 
• You have experience working on large-scale data problems, ideally using SQL/BigQuery and Spark.
• You have experience working on complex workflows, ideally using Airflow.
• You gravitate towards hard problems. You are proactive about trying different approaches and use data to drive decision-making.
• You write understandable, testable code by default with an eye toward maintainability.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• You are excited about mentoring engineers.
• You have experience with experimentation and/or analytics, either through building and supporting a platform or running experiments.
• You keep learning and always seek to improve yourself. You are curious about new opportunities and act to explore them. Namely, you are familiar with the trending technology in data and software development.

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 to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during any part of the interview process, please let your recruiter know. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skills.

For U.S. roles only:

Many Etsy roles are open to remote candidates, and you'll be able to identify which ones within the location header of each job description. We're open to remote hires from all U.S. states except Hawaii and Alaska. For candidates who will work remotely from Colorado, visit this link for information related to Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.