Software Engineer II, Observability

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 and infrastructure running across VMs and Containers, and continue to develop in an ai-centric world. As a team, we are a strategic advantage for Etsy by building the future of observability. You will be playing an instrumental role in crafting the future architecture of how we run our systems in the cloud while being part of a dynamic international team. This is a full time role reporting to the Engineering Manager for Observability.

What’s this team like at Etsy?

• The team is committed to craft and maintain critical systems that power our 91.2M active buyers and 6.2M active sellers, with a goal of 99.95% uptime.
• This team’s mission is to build tools and services to collect, store and analyze telemetry data. We optimize for time to detect, diagnose and resolve issues.
• We work closely with developers on best practices for instrumentation because we understand that preventing issues is a balance over many tradeoffs. We are a force multiplier for the entire engineering organization.
• You’ll be creating and maintaining an observability suite of tools that enable our engineers to deploy 100+ times every week and gather deep insights on the infrastructure’s reliability. We believe the future of Observability is no longer disconnected across 3 pillars of metrics, logs, and tracing, but is a single braid of interconnected data. There’s a lot of work to do to make Etsy Engineers’ work easier and our platform even more reliable than it is today, and we’d love for you to be part of it.
• We work closely with other teams to support their telemetry needs

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