Senior Observability Engineer - Cloud Telemetry & Metrics

Etsy, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity package

Annual performance bonus

Benefits

Job summary

Etsy, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer I (Observability) to build and support our telemetry stack across Prometheus, Grafana, BigQuery, and cloud tooling.

You will influence architecture for monitoring and reliability, collaborating with an international team and reporting to the Engineering Manager for Observability. You’ll work on handling petabytes of logs and millions of metrics, shaping tools to improve uptime and service visibility, with a strong emphasis on scalable,

Qualifications

• The last 3 years are in Observability systems/developer tooling roles, preferably in a cloud environment.
• Prior experience in executing multiple large, successful projects within a team environment.
• Experience with metrics, logging and tracing systems in a professional setup is essential.
• Proficiency in one of the programming languages like PHP, Python, Go is essential.
• Experience with cloud architectures (GCP, AWS) and exposure to Kubernetes is nice to have.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling like Terraform and configuration management tooling like Chef/Ansible is essential.

Responsibilities

• Work with telemetry (petabytes of logs, millions of metrics, traces) to design reliable systems enabling high availability.
• Build best‑in‑class developer tooling for Observability to support rapid deployment and deep insights.
• Understand real business needs at scale and apply software engineering to solve them.
• Design, develop and implement scalable systems across the infrastructure stack (Chef, Terraform, Kubernetes, Go, Prometheus, Envoy, OTel).

Skills

Observability

Cloud environments

Troubleshooting

Team collaboration

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Kubernetes

Chef

Ansible

Envoy

OTel

GoLang

Job description

Etsy, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer I (Observability) to build and support our telemetry stack across Prometheus, Grafana, BigQuery, and cloud tooling.

You will influence architecture for monitoring and reliability, collaborating with an international team and reporting to the Engineering Manager for Observability. You’ll work on handling petabytes of logs and millions of metrics, shaping tools to improve uptime and service visibility, with a strong emphasis on scalable,