# Scala Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, ML Enablement at Etsy

- Company: Etsy
- What the company does: Backed by Accel and USV.
- Company website: http://www.etsy.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Brooklyn, New York
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-11-06
- Apply by: 2026-12-21
- Apply: https://etsy.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Etsy_Careers/job/Brooklyn-New-York/Senior-Software-Engineer-I--Machine-Learning--ML-Enablement_JR6034-1?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
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## 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


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