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?

As a member of our Data Infrastructure team, you’ll help us build and maintain tools and infrastructure to write, test, and schedule batch data pipelines. Your work will enable other developers, data scientists, and analysts to write the high-performing pipelines that power data science, machine learning, and product development at Etsy.

We primarily write in Scala, Java, and Python and use technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Airflow, Terraform, and Kubernetes, as well as GCP services like Dataproc, Dataflow, and BigQuery. This is a full-time role. Our team is headquartered in Brooklyn but has a remote-first culture and we encourage remote applicants.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Engineering Manager, Data Platform. For this role, we are considering candidates based in the US 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?

• We build highly-performant systems that are maintainable and easy to understand by selecting and integrating with the best of current technologies.
• We develop robust, highly available, well-monitored data infrastructure.
• We stay in close communication with our internal customers and make strategic improvements to ensure those that depend on us have a great experience using data

What does the day-to-day look like?

• You should have experience building data processing platforms, supporting them at scale, and collaborating with other teams that depend on them. 
• Experience building applications and managing infrastructure using one of the major cloud providers is preferred but not required. 
• We value curiosity, passion, responsibility, and generosity of spirit.
• 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 understand that being an effective software engineer is about communicating with people as much as it is about writing code.
• You are willing to work with and improve code you did not originally write.
• You are generous with your time and experience, and can mentor and learn from other engineers.
• Advantages and limitations of distributed systems
• DevOps
• Writing ETL pipelines
• Building and monitoring cloud services and infrastructure
• Using or maintaining data processing environments like Hadoop, Spark, PySpark, and Dataflow.

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.