Overview

Etsy is seeking an Engineering Manager to join our team.

As Etsy grows, the technical infrastructure and platforms need to continue to enable Etsy’s growth while providing innovative ways to improve our systems. The Observability team is tasked with making that happen for all metrics, logging and alerting needs and we’re looking for someone to manage this team.

Etsy is actively preparing to move systems to a cloud provider, and this team play a key role in this work. This is an exciting and revolutionary time to join Etsy as engineering embarks on its next generation work, offering an opportunity to be part of the teams that run the infrastructure that connects millions of sellers and customers

This is a full-time position based in Etsy’s Brooklyn office or remote in a US timezone.

About the Teams

The Observability team is a fluid and dynamic group. We work across Engineering to provide teams with tools, platforms and insights into how their systems are performing. The team strives for situational awareness; we know that failure happens, and sometimes we even cause them to happen on purpose. Being nice is a requirement. You will likely learn more about collaboration at Etsy than you have anywhere else.

About the Role

  • Manage the career development of a team of highly collaborative systems engineers
  • Contribute to technical discussions within your team to help increase the efficiency, stability, deliverability, and maintainability of everything your team produces
  • Participate in the greater company discussions to help set the direction for Etsy’s engineering team
  • Offer strategic direction, provide space for the team to create solutions
  • Work asynchronously with people spread geographically between Europe, East Coast and the West Coast
  • Regular 1:1s with team members, team meetings, representing the team within Systems Engineering and across the wider Engineering org
  • Curiosity regarding what makes people tick

About You

  • Have prior experience managing teams
  • Understand the importance of authenticity and mindfulness in leadership
  • Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Are as excited by the challenges of nurturing a team as you are by the technical challenges of building systems
  • Help those around you grow as engineers and be successful
  • Enjoy learning about and interacting with the people who use your systems

What is nice to have, but not essential

  • Relevant domain experience
  • Experience with bare metal and cloud environments

Why Etsy

  • We are very open about how we build things and the tools we have created to get things done. Read more on our technical blog, CodeAsCraft
  • We open source a lot of code
  • We have amazing offices in the heart of Dublin city and Brooklyn, and ensure our remote employees don’t miss out either!
  • We genuinely care about our talented teams and offer a fantasticparental leave policy, Health Care, Dental Care, Sabbatical leave and many more exciting benefits
  • Most importantly we’re a social bunch with global offices full of fun, innovation, awesome people and all kinds of interesting events and we are continuously growing!

What’s Next

Interested in joining the team? Send us a cover letter and your resume explaining why you’d be great for the job. We value individuality and variety, so make sure to tell us what you’re all about. If you have an online presence (blog, Twitter, Facebook), send it along. And if you write, draw, craft, or contribute to something you’re proud of, we’d love to hear about it.

Etsy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants regardless of color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, actual or presumed belonging to an ethnic group, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

About Etsy

Etsy operates marketplaces where millions of people around the world connect, both online and offline, to make, sell and buy unique goods.

Etsy also offers a wide range of seller services and tools that help creative entrepreneurs start, grow and manage their businesses. The Etsy community includes creative entrepreneurs who sell on our platform, thoughtful consumers looking to buy unique goods in our marketplace, retailers and manufacturers who partner with Etsy sellers to help them grow their businesses and Etsy employees who maintain our platform and nurture our ecosystem. Our mission is to reimagine commerce in ways that build a more fulfilling and lasting world, and we're committed to using the power of business to strengthen communities and empower people.

You may know Etsy as the global marketplace for unique goods, from enamel pins to custom wedding invitations and handcrafted furniture, but we're more than that. We're a values-driven company with a mission to reimagine commerce in ways that build a more fulfilling and lasting world. That means we're committed to using the power of business for good through our platform, our members, our employees, and the communities we serve around the world. Some call this 'business as unusual', but around here it's just business.

At Etsy, you can do the work you love, be yourself, and make an impact in the lives of millions. Whether you code a new feature, write an Instagram post or educate sellers, your work helps entrepreneurs build businesses powered by their creativity.

From our Brooklyn HQ to our offices around the globe, Etsy's values are woven into everything we do, from our advocacy and sustainability efforts to our progressive parental leave policy and paid volunteer time for employees. We offer competitive benefits, balanced working hours and a culture of continuous learning.