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 Inc. employee, whether a team member of Etsy or Depop, you will tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human.
Salary Range:
$162,000.00 - $191,000.00What’s the role?
Etsy's Data Enablement department builds systems and infrastructure and writes data pipelines for collecting, storing, and analyzing huge sets of data in batch and streaming contexts. As a member of the Core Data team, you'll work on the pipelines that transform Etsy’s rich clickstream data sources into core datasets that are integral to thousands of downstream data processing jobs. You’ll help build out the transform layer to integrate low-latency stream processing into traditional batch jobs; you’ll help design new methods and tooling for ensuring the validity and quality of our data; and you’ll write new robust data pipelines in Spark, BigQuery SQL, and Kafka Streams.
We work in Scala, Python, Java, and SQL, and we work with technologies like Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Looker, Dataproc, and BigQuery. Experience with any of these is helpful but not required; above all, we value curiosity, enthusiasm, responsibility and generosity of spirit. We're looking for a flexible engineer who cares about the data that flows through pipelines and the internal customers who will use that data. We care more about being excited to pivot to the appropriate tool for the job than having deep expertise in single systems.
The technical staff at Etsy believes that code is craft, and that the work we do is part of a larger creative culture that includes the hundreds of thousands of inspired artists and designers who make Etsy such a unique marketplace. We believe that small, empowered, self-motivated teams can do big things. We believe in measuring everything, taking advantage of our continuous deployment system to ship code early and often, and keeping up a blameless culture based on trust and a commitment to learning.
This is a full-time position reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager, Core Data. 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.
For 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 to be 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?
Our team is responsible for the daily delivery of Etsy’s core datasets, powering hundreds of business-critical datasets downstream.
We’re constantly working to improve upon our data services and extract value from existing data sources by providing new and scalable ways to access and transform our clickstream data.
We ensure the health and timely delivery of the ETL pipelines and data models that power our core business analytics datasets and the upstream feature data that feeds all of Etsy's machine learning systems.
We build and maintain internal tools for monitoring and validating high-quality data.
What does the day-to-day look like?
You will work with your team to improve our pipeline that helps us understand how buyers arrived at Etsy and their experience on the site and app.
You will help build and maintain streaming datasets that power our search, ads, and recommendation systems.
You will support evolving our bot filtering rules to ensure the quality of our data.
You will partner with product engineering teams to ensure that data collected is of high quality and consistent across all of our platforms.
You will help maintain and update core datasets that are reusable and cover the needs of our analytics, product, and engineering partners.
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 familiarity with a few of the following: integrating low-latency and batch processing, working with event-based data systems, stream processing systems like Kafka Streams, Spark, or Dataflow, or writing SQL queries for data exploration and analysis.
You understand that being an effective software engineer is about communicating with people as much as it is about writing code.
You are generous with your time and experience, and can mentor and learn from other engineers.
You can tackle unconstrained problems and know when to seek help.
You are flexible with languages and tools and are willing to learn whatever is necessary to get the job done.
Additional Information
What's Next
If you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please share your resume with us and feel free to include a cover letter if you'd like. As we hope you've seen already, Etsy is a place that values individuality and variety. We don't want you to be like everyone else -- we want you to be like you! So tell us what you're all about.
Our Promise
At Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace furthers relevance, resilience, and longevity. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Etsy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during any part of the application or interview process, please let your recruiter know. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skills.