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Software Engineer II, Observability

Etsy · Brooklyn, New York · On-site

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About Etsy

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

  • You are an experienced software engineer, where the last 2 years are in Observability systems/developer tooling roles, preferably in a cloud environment
  • Prior experience in executing multiple large, successful projects within a team environment. Each of these projects may have taken many months or longer to see through
  • Prior experience in either implementing or actively using metrics, logging and tracing systems in a professional setup is essential
  • Wears every 9 of uptime as a badge of honor
  • Proficiency in one of the programming languages like PHP, Python, Go is essential
  • Experience with cloud architectures (GCP, AWS), and exposure to Kubernetes or other container orchestration frameworks is nice to have
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 are looking for an engineer with a strong background (or interest) in building observability platforms for distributed systems humans.

As the Software Engineer II, SRE (for Observability) you will be building and supporting our telemetry stack which consists of Prometheus, Grafana, BigQuery, StatsD, Vector, Google Cloud Logging, and Honeycomb. We have an ambitious roadmap to improve visibility of services...

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