Software Engineer, Data

Whatnot Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Holiday and Time off Policy

Health Insurance options

Work From Home Support

Care benefits

Retirement 401k offering

Monthly allowance for app dogfooding

Parental Leave

Job summary

A leading livestream shopping platform is seeking a Software Engineer for the Data team. This role involves defining the technical direction for the retrieval platform, driving innovation, and ensuring system scalability. Candidates should have 3+ years of experience and expertise in cloud data management and streaming systems. The position offers a flexible work environment and competitive compensation, with a salary range of $230,000 to $290,000 plus benefits and equity.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
• Ability to write well-tested applications that run at scale.
• Experience with managing cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction for the retrieval platform.
• Drive innovation for scalable systems.
• Integrate data systems and optimize company architecture.

Skills

API-driven applications

Scalable distributed systems

Cloud data stores management

Streaming data systems expertise

Operational systems support

Cloud technologies (AWS or Google Cloud)

Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)

Python programming

Data structures and algorithms

Communication skills

Job description

🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. Whether it's trading cards, fashion, electronics, or live plants, our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories. We're building live commerce at a scale that's never been done in the West, and there's no playbook to copy. The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops.

As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our values and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia. We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact.

We're one of the fastest growing marketplaces and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.

💻 Role

The Data team at Whatnot creates services that improve our core product experience and unlock business value. As an engineer, you will play a critical role in defining the technical direction and leading the development of the retrieval platform to power next-gen systems at Whatnot. You will be responsible for driving innovation, ensuring the scalability and performance of our systems, and working with a team of engineers to deliver high-quality solutions.

Working in a highly cross-functional role, you’ll also make key decisions about how we integrate data systems at Whatnot – and then make it happen. You’ll be positioned to align efforts to optimize other aspects of our company’s architecture, such as machine learning, real-time analytics, stream processing, and content understanding to name a few.

We offer flexibility to work from home or from one of our global office hubs, and we value in-person time for planning, problem-solving, and connection. Team members in this role must live within commuting distance of our New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco hubs.

👋 You

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that embodying a low ego, growth mindset, and high-impact drive goes a long way here.

As our next Software Engineer of Data, you should have 3+ years of experience, plus:

• Ability to write well-tested, API-driven applications and services that run at scale in production.

• Track record of building scalable and performant distributed systems

• Expertise in managing cloud data stores (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, etc.) for processing and serving data products

• Expertise in streaming data systems such as Kafka, Flink, or Pulsar, and the ability to design and manage real-time processing pipelines at scale.

• Strong experience supporting operational systems to ensure uptime, reliability, and maintainability, including monitoring, alerting, and incident management.

In addition to these role-specific qualifications, all engineering team members are expected to have:

• Experience managing cloud technologies (AWS or Google Cloud) and comfort with infrastructure-as-code approaches (e.g. Terraform).

• Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language (preferably Python), common algorithms and data structures, and software design principles.

• Self-starter ethic, thriving under a high level of autonomy.

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

💰Compensation

ForFull-Time(Salary)US basedapplicants:$230,000/yearto$290,000/year+benefits+equity.

Thesalaryrangemaybeinclusiveofseverallevelsthatwouldbeapplicabletotheposition.Finalsalarywillbebasedonanumberoffactorsincluding,level,relevantpriorexperience,skills,andexpertise.Thisrangeisonlyinclusiveofbasesalary,notbenefits(moredetailsbelow)orequity.

🎁Benefits

• Generous Holiday and Time off Policy

• HealthInsuranceoptionsincludingMedical,Dental,Vision

• WorkFromHomeSupport

  • Homeofficesetupallowance

  • Monthlyallowanceforcellphoneandinternet

• Carebenefits

  • Monthlyallowanceforwellness

  • AnnualallowancetowardsChildcare

  • Lifetimebenefitforfamilyplanning,suchasadoptionorfertilityexpenses

• Retirement;401kofferingforTraditionalandRothaccountsintheUS(employermatchupto4%ofbasesalary)andPensionplansinternationally

• Monthly allowance to dogfood the app

  • All Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product. We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).

• ParentalLeave

  • 16weeksofpaidparentalleave+onemonthgradualreturntowork*companyleaveallowancesrunconcurrentlywithcountryleaverequirementswhichtakeprecedence.

💛 EOE

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.