Company DescriptionEtsy 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, Reverb, Depop, or Elo7 you will tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce HumanJob DescriptionEtsy’s Services Infrastructure group is looking for a Senior Engineer to join us in our mission of building and supporting reliable large scale Kubernetes infrastructure. You’ll get exposure to a variety of technologies ranging from Kubernetes, Golang, Terraform, Prometheus and more as you build systems to support the services that support our 92M active buyers! As the Senior Engineer II, SRE you will drive the adoption of containers and Kubernetes, improve reliability, automating the operations and providing a self-service runtime platform to accelerate Etsy’s product engineering, and contribute to the design and implementation of Observability & CI/CD on top of Kubernetes.Do you find joy in improving developer velocity and have the itch to work on complex large-scale distributed systems? If so, this could be the perfect match.What's this team like at Etsy? This team improves the Developer experience, helping them build, deploy, release and observe applications transparently on Google Kubernetes Engine. They work on 10 Kubernetes clusters with hundreds of nodes running services with low latency requirements. This team also standardizes cluster and application security with Gatekeeper admission policies and container vulnerability scanning, as well as SLI/O creation for all services across Kubernetes Platform.This team works closely with many product and infra engineering teams across Etsy. This team handles10 Kubernetes clusters with hundreds of nodes running services with low latency requirements.Build and support the CI/CD platform (Buildkite) used by more than a few hundred engineers to deploy their workloads to GKE.Maintain and upgrade GKE addons(CertManager, Gatekeeper), ingress controllers (Contour, Envoy), and various telemetry components (kube-prometheus, AlertManager, Karma), Container Security and SLI/O tooling.What does the day-to-day look like? Administer GKE clusters and automate operations like provisioning and service observability. Support the partner teams running their workloads on the Kubernetes Platform. . Provide guidance and collaborate with multi-functional engineering teams to streamline and improve the adoption of KubernetesBuild paved paths for wider product engineering with codelabs, documentation, automation and self-service portals to develop, deploy and operate services on GKE.Participate in an on-call rotation and seek opportunities for reducing toil and avoiding technical debt to reduce support and operations load on the team.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 lawThis is a full-time position reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager and the base salary range will be $171,000.00 - $201,000.00 USD per year. 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.QualificationsQualities that will help you thrive in this role are:You have strong software engineering and coding skills, data structure knowledge and ability to write high performance production quality code. You have 5 years of experience in software engineering, where the last 2 years is in systems/infrastructure engineering or SRE or DevOps roles, preferably in a cloud environment.Experience with orchestration systems like Kubernetes (traffic ingresses, cluster networking/administration, pod security policies) is essential.Experience iterating on multiple projects on a collaborative team, each of which may have taken months or longer to complete.Hands-on experience with Infrastructure As Code tooling like Terraform and configuration management tooling like Chef/Ansible.Hands on debugging experience with Linux based operating systems.Willing to work with and improve on code you did not originally write.Proficiency in one programming language like Go, Python, PHP is nice to have.You understand that being an effective software engineer is as much about communicating with people as it is about writing code.Additional InformationWhat's NextIf 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 PromiseAt 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 and is an affirmative action employer. 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. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during any part of the interview process, please let your recruiter know. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skills.