Senior Software Engineer I

What’s the role?

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our ML Orchestration Platform team working to work with us on building and managing the tooling that powers evaluating our Search, Ads, Trust & Safety, and Recommendations systems. As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for building systems that enable teams to confidently deploy changes to our recommendation systems before deploying them in production. These tools work by sending historical and/or simulated requests in a pre-production environment and evaluating responses to generate analytic reports. Our innovative evaluation layer helps nearly 100M buyers and over 5M sellers navigate Etsy’s extensive marketplace by enabling our teams to move quickly and confidently. Do you find joy in big picture thinking and helping enable others while driving critical metrics? If so, this could be the perfect match.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Engineering Manager 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.

This role requires your presence in Etsy’s Mexico City office once or twice per week depending on your proximity to the office. Candidates living within commutable distance of our Mexico City office or in Guadalajara may be the first to be considered. Learn more details about our work modes and workplace safety policies here.

What’s this team like at Etsy?

• The Machine Learning Enablement Initiative builds and maintains Machine Learning systems that help all Etsy customers quickly resolve issues through intuitive self-service tools and human, real support experiences

• We work on meaningful, complex challenges but small enough that you can make a rewarding impact

• We build platforms & services to solve problems at scale

• We are a platform team with a product driven mentality

• We drive innovation using our Machine Learning systems in effective and creative ways

What does the day-to-day look like?

• Play a central role in building evaluation tools for our search and recommendation systems.

• Develop and support the core services/infrastructure of our evaluation layer.

• Work cross-functionally with various platform teams, Machine Learning teams and product partners to build the next generation of our evaluation, simulation, and load testing tooling.

• Practice continuous learning and agile delivery model to stay informed and focused on our deliverables.

• We are proud to have an engineering culture that encourages career growth and learning in a blameless environment. You can learn more about our philosophies, tools, and some of the challenges we’ve been solving on our Engineering blog.

• 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:

• You have proven engineering and coding skills and data structure knowledge

• You have experience working with Java and/or Python

• You are a strong collaborator and communicator and you make the engineers around you grow and learn

• 5+yr experience in building, iterating and troubleshooting solutions to complex problems with a significant backend component

• You have built distributed services with technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, etc

• You have fundamental experience with infrastructure engineering and strong troubleshooting skills

• You have hands-on experience with Cloud technologies (Google Cloud)

• Experience with Machine Learning, in particular evaluation, is a plus