Staff Site Reliability Engineer I, Search Developer Platform

Etsy
Dublin
Workplace: HybridFull timeEUR 118,000 - 139,000 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Continuous learning","Agile delivery","Problem-solving"]

Own and operate the core search platform infrastructure for Etsy’s buyers and sellers, building highly available systems and automation that scale independently of team size. Work across Kubernetes runtime, CI/CD and deployment platforms, and developer-facing tooling to improve developer velocity and reduce toil. Collaborate with platform engineers, ML teams, SREs, and product partners while participating in on-call rotations for business-critical services.

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Etsy
Etsy
2 months ago

Staff Site Reliability Engineer I, Search Developer Platform

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Job Summary

Own and operate the core search platform infrastructure for Etsy’s buyers and sellers, building highly available systems and automation that scale independently of team size. Work across Kubernetes runtime, CI/CD and deployment platforms, and developer-facing tooling to improve developer velocity and reduce toil. Collaborate with platform engineers, ML teams, SREs, and product partners while participating in on-call rotations for business-critical services.
Location: Dublin
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Take ownership of high-impact platform systems used across search, including Kubernetes runtime environments and CI/CD and deployment platforms.
  • •Collaborate cross-functionally to define standards and evolve platforms, influencing technical direction while building next-generation high-availability search infrastructure in the cloud.
  • •Build developer-facing platforms and tooling such as self-service deploys, observability, Bazel workflows, and search-specific CI/CD to reduce friction at scale.
  • •Provide real operational responsibility, including on-call for business-critical systems, while continuously improving reliability and operability and developer experience.
  • •Evolve the search platform by identifying friction and implementing changes that measurably improve developer experience, while automating away toil and avoiding technical debt.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 118,000 - 139,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years of software engineering experience, with the last 2 years in systems/infrastructure engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles, preferably in a cloud environment.
  • •Strong production-quality coding skills and ability to write high-performance software.
  • •Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform) and configuration management (Chef/Ansible).
  • •Hands-on debugging experience with Linux-based operating systems.
  • •Solid background in cloud technologies such as Google Cloud or AWS; search technologies (Lucene/Solr, Elasticsearch, Vespa) and tools like Grafana, Kubernetes, or Docker are a plus.
Experience:6+ years
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationContinuous learningAgile deliveryProblem-solving
Tech Stack:KubernetesGolangLLMsModel ServingSearch Retrieval & RankingCI/CDBazelObservabilityTerraformChefAnsibleLinuxGoPythonJavaPHPGoogle CloudAWSLucene/SolrElasticsearch

Company Brief

Etsy
Operates a global online marketplace focused on handmade, vintage, and unique goods, connecting independent sellers with buyers and providing tools for listing, payment processing, shipping, and shop management.
Industry: Online Marketplaces
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Founded: 2005
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Glassdoor: 3.8
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