Observability Platform Engineer II — Remote & Equity

Etsy, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity package

Annual performance bonus

Competitive benefits

Remote-friendly policy

Job summary

Etsy, Inc. in Brooklyn, NY is seeking a Software Engineer II, SRE (Observability) to build and support our telemetry stack, including Prometheus, Grafana, BigQuery, StatsD, and related tools.

You will help shape the future architecture of how we run services in the cloud while collaborating with an international engineering team. This role focuses on scalable observability solutions, high availability, and developer tooling that enables frequent deployments.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in observability systems or developer tooling.
• Cloud experience (GCP/AWS) is a plus.
• Proficiency in Go, Python or PHP.
• Experience with telemetry, metrics, logs and tracing.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable observability systems.
• Develop telemetry tooling to improve uptime and visibility.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to meet reliability goals.
• Contribute to cloud architecture and deployment pipelines.

Skills

Observability

Distributed systems

Go language

Communication

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

BigQuery

StatsD

Vector

Kubernetes

Terraform

Chef/Ansible

Envoy

OTel

Job description

Etsy, Inc. in Brooklyn, NY is seeking a Software Engineer II, SRE (Observability) to build and support our telemetry stack, including Prometheus, Grafana, BigQuery, StatsD, and related tools.

You will help shape the future architecture of how we run services in the cloud while collaborating with an international engineering team. This role focuses on scalable observability solutions, high availability, and developer tooling that enables frequent deployments.