Backed by Accel and USV.
About the role
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 employee, you will tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating distributed, low-latency production services
- Experience with Scala or another functional programming language and comfort with functional patterns such as immutability, composition, and effect or concurrency libraries
- A solid understanding of how ML inference works in production: model serving, feature retrieval, batching, latency and throughput trade-offs, and how predictive and transformer-based models are deployed and evaluated
- Hands-on experience operating services on Kubernetes, including deployments, scaling, resource management, and debugging in production
- Experience designing service APIs and request-routing or orchestration systems (e.g., gRPC, queues)
- Strong operational skills: metrics, tracing, alerting, on-call ownership, and performance profiling
More about this role
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 employee, you will tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human.
We believe exceptional companies are built by exceptional teams, and we're intentional about it. That means hiring great people, setting them up for success from day one, and giving them real reasons to grow their careers here. We invest in development that goes beyond promotions, and we foster the trust and relationships that help people do their best work together.
What’s the Role?
We’re looking for a Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer to help build and run Etsy’s ML orchestration platform. Every ML request at Etsy goes through it, including search, recommendations, ads, trust and safety, and generative AI use cases. The platform handles online inference and model evaluation, and it connects product teams to the models, features, and serving infrastructure behind them. This...
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