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[Mike Brittain]

Web performance is an important aspect of running our site. We measure just
about everything and are constantly tweaking to improve our site
performance. I'm currently hiring for two new positions on our engineering
team at Etsy for a couple of web performance engineers. One of these will
focus primarily on back-end (http://etsy.me/ggEYLe) performance and the
other will focus on front-end (http://etsy.me/fpG6mv) performance. Think you
can handle both front-end and back-end performance yourself? Then I really
want to talk to you. :)

A list of all of our job openings can be found here: http://etsy.me/hCU7jV

Both job descriptions are listed below, along with information about
Etsy. Please feel free to email me with questions about these positions.

Mike



*Web Performance Engineer (Back-end)*

http://etsy.me/ggEYLe

Etsy is seeking a Web Performance Engineer to manage, measure, and improve
on all aspects of back-end web site performance. You'll be responsible for
selecting and managing tools for measuring and profiling performance of page
generation on our web servers. With benchmarks in place, you'll make
improvements to application code, database queries, web services, and
caching layers to improve the delivery of pages across Etsy.com. You'll work
across functional engineering teams to evangelize web performance and
monitor improvements (and regressions) in delivery speed throughout your
work.

Get fired up! You're going to be working to identify and fix performance
issues at every layer of our application code. We like to measure everything
and release code frequently. You'll have the opportunity to validate every
change you make with hard data.

*About You:*


   - Completed a computer science degree or have related industry experience
   - Possess a strong competence in HTML, PHP, SQL, Apache, and Linux
   - Understand CDNs, HTTP headers, and caching
   - Experienced using code profiling tools
   - Have demonstrable experience with improving site performance
   - Measure the time it takes to brew a cup of coffee in milliseconds

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*Web Performance Engineer (Front-end)*
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http://etsy.me/fpG6mv

Etsy is seeking a Web Performance Engineer to manage and measure all aspects
of front-end web site performance. You'll be focusing on hands-on
performance areas like CSS and JavaScript optimizations, spriting, content
delivery networks, HTTP caching headers, and Ajax request performance. These
sorts of performance improvements will be targeted at both desktop and
mobile platforms.

We like to deploy code frequently and measure just about everything going on
in our application stack. You'll have the opportunity to contribute quickly
and validate the effectiveness of your changes. Roll up your sleeves, it's
go time!

*About You:*

   - Completed a computer science degree or have related industry experience
   - Competent with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Linux.
   - Regularly use one, or more, of the following: YSlow, Page Speed,
   HttpWatch, Show Slow, WebPagetest, Charles
   - Understand CDNs, HTTP headers, and caching
   - You're totally over the whole "coding pixel-perfect Photoshop comps"
   gig
   - Own at least one copy of Steve Souders' book, "Even Faster Web Sites."


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*About Us*

Etsy is the world's most vibrant handmade marketplace. Our mission is to
enable people all over the world to make a living making things. Etsy is
growing rapidly and needs talented, motivated people to join that mission.
The growing Etsy community includes over 7.2 million members in over 150
countries. Our sellers collectively list around 7.7 million active items,
and in 2010 we sold over $300 million of goods. Etsy operates transparently
and you can check in to see how the Etsy community is doing in our monthly
weather reports.

The technical staff at Etsy believes that code is craft, good software and
systems designs are works of art, and that the work we do is part of larger
creative culture represented by the hundreds of thousands of inspired makers
who make Etsy such a wondrous marketplace. We believe that small, empowered,
self-motivated teams can do big things. We also believe in the right tool
for the job, not language-as-religion. Our current systems run PHP, Java,
Python, Ruby, Solr/Lucene, Postgres, MySQL, and more. Check out our
Engineering blog: http://codeascraft.etsy.com/

Etsy is led by CEO and co-founder Rob Kalin. We are backed by Accel
Partners, Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures; count the founders of
Flickr and Delicious as our earliest investors; and are proud to have
Caterina Fake, Jim Breyer, Stephanie Tilenius, and Fred Wilson on our
board.

*Next Steps*

We're growing rapidly and are well funded with a proven business model and
established revenue to help us continue growing and serving our community.
If you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please send a cover letter
along with your resume telling us what inspires you about Etsy and why you
think you are perfect for the team *(resumes without a cover letter will not
be considered)*. If you contribute to an open source project, write a blog,
or practice another craft besides coding, that means something to us, and we
would love to hear about it when you write!
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