San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Seattle, WA Hybrid Employment

Whatnot is hiring a Software Engineer, Data Foundations

Responsibilities

  • Guide technical strategy and spearhead development of core data platform systems enabling advanced company-wide capabilities
  • Lead the design and maturation of data orchestration and streaming platforms from early stages to enterprise-wide production use
  • Create scalable, dependable, multi-tenant data infrastructure instead of just pipeline development on existing platforms
  • Take ownership of platform scalability, performance, reliability, service-level objectives, and operational integrity for data processing
  • Develop robust systems supporting real-time analytics, event-based applications, and machine learning infrastructure needs
  • Make strategic decisions on data system integration and collaborate across teams to implement unified architectures
  • Work closely with engineering teams across product, platform, machine learning, and data functions to enable rapid, secure, and scalable development
  • Influence company-wide technical direction in areas including orchestration, stream processing, real-time systems, analytics, and content understanding
  • Apply DevOps and site reliability engineering practices such as CI/CD, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and incident management to maintain large-scale system reliability
  • Help establish and uphold data governance and compliance standards across the data lake and dependent systems

Benefits

  • Comprehensive holiday and flexible time-off policy
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage options
  • Support for remote work environments
  • Stipend for home office setup
  • Monthly reimbursement for internet and mobile phone expenses
  • Access to care-related benefits
  • Monthly wellness allowance
  • Annual financial support for childcare
  • Lifetime benefit for family planning including fertility and adoption costs
  • Retirement savings with 401k options for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US, including employer match up to 4% of base salary; pension plans available internationally
  • Monthly credit to use the platform as a customer
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave with a one-month phased return-to-work program

Other

All employees are expected to gain deep product knowledge by actively using the platform as both buyers and sellers; a monthly stipend supports this hands-on engagement to enhance user experience understanding

About company
Whatnot
Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe where users can buy, sell, and discover items across hundreds of categories such as trading cards, fashion, electronics, and live plants. The company enables sellers to build real businesses and is pioneering live commerce at scale in the West.
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Job Details
Department Engineering, Data & Marketplace Integrity
Category other
Posted a month ago