Site Reliability Engineer II

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?

Etsy’s Runtime Site Reliability Engineering team is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join us in our mission of building and supporting reliable large scale infrastructure. The SRE team owns several aspects of business critical infrastructure and services that enable developers to efficiently build and deliver code as well as support the uptime of  As an SRE at Etsy, you’ll have the privilege of playing a support role for our developers to help them leverage the infrastructure we build and manage as well as assume ownership of a multitude of systems and ensure their reliability, scalability and maintainability.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Engineering Manager, Runtime SRE. 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  this role, we are considering candidates based in the United States. Candidates living within commutable distance of Etsy’s Brooklyn Office Hub or in the San Francisco Bay Area may be the first considered.

For candidates within commutable distance, Etsy requires in-office attendance once or twice per week depending on your proximity to the office. Etsy offers different work modes to meet the variety of needs and preferences of our team. Learn more details about our work modes and workplace safety policies here.

What’s this team like at Etsy?

This team’s mission is to build and support world-class infrastructure that is responsible for the availability and reliability of the core infrastructure that powers  and its mobile apps.

The SRE team is committed to craft and maintain critical systems that power our 94M active buyers and 7.4M active sellers, with a goal of 99.95% uptime. You'll collaborate with leading SRE professionals to influence the future of how Etsy builds, deploys and maintains reliable infrastructure that can automatically scale to meet the needs of our customers.

The SRE Team is dedicated to continuous improvement. All SREs are empowered and encouraged to enhance any system, even those not directly owned by your team.

What does the day-to-day look like?

Develop and implement highly scalable and maintainable systems by contributing at multiple levels of our infrastructure stack using technologies like Chef, Terraform, Go, PHP, Prometheus, Consul and more…Support the day-to-day operations of running a large scale application, including monitoring, measuring, and troubleshooting infrastructure and services.

Automate the upgrade procedures that range from Operating System upgrades to core application upgrades.

Manage multiple aspects of Etsy’s core infrastructure such as asset delivery, async compute processing, and scheduled tasks management–supporting millions of requests to  and its mobile apps daily.

Continually automate away toil that can be burdensome for teams.

Develop automation and processes to enable teams to…