Company Description
Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect entrepreneurs with buyers around the world. Etsy, Inc.'s 'house of brands' portfolio has expanded to now include four individually distinct ecommerce brands -- Etsy, fashion resale marketplace Depop, musical instrument marketplace Reverb, and Brazil-based handmade goods marketplace Elo7. As an Etsy employee, you'll tackle unique problems alongside talented coworkers committed to Keeping Commerce Human. We're large enough that you'll focus on meaningful, complex challenges, but small enough that you can make a rewarding impact.
Job Description
Company Description
Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect entrepreneurs with buyers around the world. Etsy, Inc.'s 'house of brands' portfolio has expanded to now include four individually distinct ecommerce brands -- Etsy, fashion resale marketplace Depop, musical instrument marketplace Reverb, and Brazil-based handmade goods marketplace Elo7. As an Etsy employee, you'll tackle unique problems alongside talented coworkers committed to Keeping Commerce Human. We're large enough that you'll focus on meaningful, complex challenges, but small enough that you can make a rewarding impact.
Job Description
What’s the role?
The Knowledge Base team builds a deeper understanding of our buyers, sellers, listings and entities in order to help enable product teams across Etsy to understand, personalize, and rank recommendations that we present to buyers. We produce models, signals, attributes, graphs and structured data that are being consumed by our Machine Learning, Analytics, Engineering and Product partners.
We are looking for an experienced machine learning engineer who can help build Etsy’s next generation capabilities for marketplace understanding.
This is a full-time position reporting to the Engineering Manager. For this role, we are considering candidates based in the U.S. 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 does the day-to-day look like?
Build and contribute at all levels of Etsy’s machine learning and knowledge base stack, ranging from application interfaces to the serving layer
Work closely with applied scientists to scale ML solutions across knowledge base, e.g. NLP, deep learning, graph based learning and structured data
Work closely and collaboratively with various engineering teams participating in design, prioritization, and implementation
Enable building rich, semantic understanding of the various kinds of content and inventory in Etsy’s marketplace
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 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 can tackle unconstrained problems and know when to seek help.
You are flexible with languages and tools and are willing to learn whatever is necessary to get the job done.
You have experience with object-oriented programming languages: Python, Scala, etc.
You have experience with machine learning frameworks (like PySpark, Scalding, etc.).
You have familiarity with machine learning and deep learning solutions across the entire machine learning stack, from data collection to evaluation.
You have familiarity with a few of the following: writing and scheduling ETL pipelines, writing SQL queries for exploration and analysis, tuning mapreduce jobs and cluster resources, building and monitoring cloud services, stream processing systems like Kafka Streams, Spark, or Dataflow.
You have strong verbal and written communication skills.
Additional Information
What's Next
If you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please send a cover letter and resume telling us why you'd be right for the position. As you've hopefully 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 write to us and tell us what you're all about.
Our Promise
At Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace makes us a more relevant, more competitive, and more resilient company. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Etsy is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.
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.