Etsy
Senior Engineering Manager, Data Collections & Streaming Data Platform
Brooklyn, New York · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$239k-$311kDetected 14 days ago
Distributed SystemsBigQueryKafkaData EngineeringA/B TestingIncident ResponseProduct ManagementProduct StrategyExcelRecruitingLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- Company Description Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods.
- 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 the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human.
- Salary Range: $239,000.00 - $311,000.00 What's the role?
Responsibilities
- Deep comfort with the tradeoffs involved in building high-reliability, low-latency data infrastructure, and the ability to communicate those tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical partners.
- In this role, you will partner closely with engineering managers, product managers, and technical leads across the Data Platform initiative to set technical direction and ensure these foundational systems are reliable, scalable, and easy to use.
- A key part of this role is acting as a genuine thought partner to your PM counterpart - deeply understanding the problems our internal customers face and shaping the product roadmap to solve them well.
- Etsy's Data Platform team builds the infrastructure that powers data-driven decision-making across the organization.
- As a Senior Engineering Manager for Data Collections and Streaming Data Platform, you will lead two teams at the heart of how Etsy captures, moves, and delivers data at scale.
- Data Collections owns the event registration and collection framework that enables engineering teams across Etsy to define, instrument, and collect data - from user interactions and web events to database change logs.
- The team builds and maintains the tooling engineers use to manage, monitor, and debug event streams, as well as the change data capture (CDC) pipeline that continuously syncs production database state into BigQuery, keeping analytical datasets current and accurate.
- Streaming Data Platform owns Etsy's Kafka infrastructure and the developer tooling that makes it easy for other teams to build and operate streaming applications.
- Lead two engineering teams - Data Collections and Streaming Data Platform - establishing effective processes that drive collaboration across disciplines and ensure timely delivery.
- Partner closely with the broader Data Platform leadership team and stakeholders across engineering to understand needs and translate them into a clear technical roadmap.
Requirements
- Experience leading platform or infrastructure engineering teams, with a strong understanding of distributed systems, event streaming, or data pipelines at scale.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of experience in engineering people management, ideally including experience managing multiple teams or a team of significant size and scope.
- Ability to make data-driven decisions, promote high-quality technical decision-making, and excel in an experimentation and metrics-driven environment.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, comfortable working with diverse collaborators at all levels of the organization.
Skills
- Company Description
- Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods.
Compensation
- $239,000.00 - $311,000.00
- 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.
Benefits
- Monitor system health and work proactively to identify and resolve issues before they impact downstream consumers.
Company info
- If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during any part of the application or interview process, please let your recruiter know.
Equal opportunity
- Etsy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
Visa & Work Authorization
- While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skills.
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