Etsy
Staff Software Engineer I, Experimentation Orchestration
Company Description
Etsy 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 or Depop, you will tackle unique, meaningful, and large‑scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all while making a rewarding impact and keeping commerce human.
Salary Range $204,000.00 – $240,000.00
What's the role? Etsy is looking for a passionate Staff Software Engineer to help enable data‑driven learning and decision‑making for our Experimentation initiative. Our initiative empowers teams across Etsy to run fast, trustworthy, and scalable experiments by laying the foundation for testing ideas, measuring impact, and continuously improving our customer experience. This high‑impact opportunity allows you to influence the technical direction of experimentation at Etsy, affecting feature development across the company. You will thrive in collaborative environments, challenge the status‑quo, and be a creative problem solver who embodies Etsy’s blameless engineering culture.
What’s This Team Like At Etsy
You will join the Experimentation Orchestration team, which focuses on making experiment setup simple, intuitive, and reliable.
We build the core services, APIs, and tools that help teams configure and launch experiments with confidence. Whether it’s feature flagging, observability, traffic allocation, or ensuring a consistent user experience, our work sits at the heart of a seamless experimentation workflow.
Our mission is to make testing new ideas effortless so teams can move faster, learn more, and build better products for our buyers and sellers.
What does the day‑to‑day look like?
Partner with engineers, analysts, and product managers—both within and beyond the Experimentation initiative—to improve Etsy’s experimentation platform focused on experiment configuration, orchestration, and event logging.
Take initiative to lead, design, and implement solutions that keep our platform at the forefront of industry standards and a reference point for experimentation excellence.
Mentor and uplevel others within the team and across Etsy to help them grow as software engineers.
Advocate for experimentation best practices across engineering teams and contribute to a strong culture of learning and continuous improvement.
Play a key role in driving technical and product direction through thoughtful decision‑making and collaboration.
Qualities that will help you thrive in this role
Hands‑on experience with A/B testing frameworks and experimentation workflows.
Excitement about full‑stack development, particularly in the context of building experimentation platforms.
Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring others to grow in their craft.Built reliable, scalable systems and know how to balance long‑term vision with practical delivery.Write clean, testable code in one or more of PHP, Python, or Java.Proficient with MySQL (or similar relational databases) and experienced designing data models that support robust, scalable systems.Experience with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure.Familiar with CI/CD tools and practices that support high‑quality, rapid software delivery.Familiar with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.Familiar with monitoring and alerting systems, such as Prometheus and Grafana.Comfortable using Git and understanding different branching strategies.Comfortable working in Linux‑based environments and know your way around the command line. Helpful, but not required
Familiarity with front‑end technologies, such as React.
Experience with data warehousing (e.g., BigQuery) and ETL processes, using big data frameworks such as Kafka and Spark and orchestration tools such as Airflow.
Additional Information Want to join our team? Please share your resume and optionally a cover letter. At Etsy, we value individuality and variety. We want you to be like you.
Equal Employment Opportunity At 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. 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, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you need accommodation during any part of the application or interview process due to a disability, please let your recruiter know. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skills.
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Salary Range $204,000.00 – $240,000.00
What's the role? Etsy is looking for a passionate Staff Software Engineer to help enable data‑driven learning and decision‑making for our Experimentation initiative. Our initiative empowers teams across Etsy to run fast, trustworthy, and scalable experiments by laying the foundation for testing ideas, measuring impact, and continuously improving our customer experience. This high‑impact opportunity allows you to influence the technical direction of experimentation at Etsy, affecting feature development across the company. You will thrive in collaborative environments, challenge the status‑quo, and be a creative problem solver who embodies Etsy’s blameless engineering culture.
What’s This Team Like At Etsy
You will join the Experimentation Orchestration team, which focuses on making experiment setup simple, intuitive, and reliable.
We build the core services, APIs, and tools that help teams configure and launch experiments with confidence. Whether it’s feature flagging, observability, traffic allocation, or ensuring a consistent user experience, our work sits at the heart of a seamless experimentation workflow.
Our mission is to make testing new ideas effortless so teams can move faster, learn more, and build better products for our buyers and sellers.
What does the day‑to‑day look like?
Partner with engineers, analysts, and product managers—both within and beyond the Experimentation initiative—to improve Etsy’s experimentation platform focused on experiment configuration, orchestration, and event logging.
Take initiative to lead, design, and implement solutions that keep our platform at the forefront of industry standards and a reference point for experimentation excellence.
Mentor and uplevel others within the team and across Etsy to help them grow as software engineers.
Advocate for experimentation best practices across engineering teams and contribute to a strong culture of learning and continuous improvement.
Play a key role in driving technical and product direction through thoughtful decision‑making and collaboration.
Qualities that will help you thrive in this role
Hands‑on experience with A/B testing frameworks and experimentation workflows.
Excitement about full‑stack development, particularly in the context of building experimentation platforms.
Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring others to grow in their craft.Built reliable, scalable systems and know how to balance long‑term vision with practical delivery.Write clean, testable code in one or more of PHP, Python, or Java.Proficient with MySQL (or similar relational databases) and experienced designing data models that support robust, scalable systems.Experience with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure.Familiar with CI/CD tools and practices that support high‑quality, rapid software delivery.Familiar with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.Familiar with monitoring and alerting systems, such as Prometheus and Grafana.Comfortable using Git and understanding different branching strategies.Comfortable working in Linux‑based environments and know your way around the command line. Helpful, but not required
Familiarity with front‑end technologies, such as React.
Experience with data warehousing (e.g., BigQuery) and ETL processes, using big data frameworks such as Kafka and Spark and orchestration tools such as Airflow.
Additional Information Want to join our team? Please share your resume and optionally a cover letter. At Etsy, we value individuality and variety. We want you to be like you.
Equal Employment Opportunity At 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. 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, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you need accommodation during any part of the application or interview process due to a disability, please let your recruiter know. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skills.
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