Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendations Retrieval

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 employee, you will tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human. We believe exceptional companies are built by exceptional teams, and we're intentional about it. That means hiring great people, setting them up for success from day one, and giving them real reasons to grow their careers here. We invest in development that goes beyond promotions, and we foster the trust and relationships that help people do their best work together. What’s

? In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with our ML team, Data Platform team and many product squads. We’re a growing team with a huge impact that builds tools and platform capabilities for data scientists and ML engineers to access feature data, build machine learning models, test hypotheses and productionize them on our ML platform hosted in Google Cloud. How can we help someone find that perfect item, even when they don’t know what they’re looking for? How can the recommendations experience make Etsy come to life and feel as vibrant as the community of makers that’s behind it? How can we understand buyer’s motives and interests to personalize their experience? How can we help buyers to explore the breadth of Etsy's inventory? This is a full-time position reporting to the Engineering Manager. What’s this team like at Etsy? The Recommendations Retrieval squad serves needs across the organization, helping the organization to leverage visual information and understand our unique and interesting inventory. As an engineer on our team, you will play a major role in improving the shopping experience for millions of Etsy buyers. We’re a cross-functional group of engineers, machine learning scientists, and product managers, and we interface with a diverse set of staff, ranging from data scientists, designers, product facing engineers and managers, and more! With your help, we are giving our buyers better tools to find what they are looking for and to help them form a connection with our sellers. In this role, you will put your skills to use by helping us improve the ranking and suggestions of localized results through machine learning algorithms. You will also create workflows and pipelines to effectively transform data into appropriate results for our buyers. You will join a talented team of engineers to collaborate on all of these projects. What does the day-to-day look like? • Build and contribute at all levels of Etsy’s recommendations stack, ranging from application interfaces to back-end technologies (Python, MySQL, Scala, Vertica) as well as the machine learning stack (PySpark, Google Cloud Platform, Airflow). • Work cross-functionally with various engineering teams (e.g. machine learning infrastructure, data science, search experience), participating in design, prioritization and implementation. • Deploy models to production, sometimes including application development for your feature. • Provide detailed and constructive design and code reviews. • Empathy, communication, and technical skill are valued equally. • Of course, this is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require! You should assume that