Software Engineer, Data Platform

Whatnot; Los Angeles (CA); Remote; USD 158,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a skilled Software Engineer for their Data Platform team. This role offers the chance to shape the future of e-commerce by enhancing core product experiences and driving innovation. As part of a dynamic and cross-functional team, you will tackle challenges in data integration, real-time analytics, and machine learning, contributing to a rapidly growing marketplace. With a commitment to flexibility and employee well-being, this position comes with competitive compensation and a range of benefits, making it an exciting opportunity for those who thrive in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Flexible Time Off Policy

Health Insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision)

Work From Home Support

Monthly wellness allowance

401k with employer match

Paid parental leave

Home office setup allowance

Annual childcare allowance

Lifetime family planning benefits

Monthly allowance for product use

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on data platforms.
• Expertise in building scalable and performant systems.

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction for retrieval platform development.
• Ensure scalability and performance of systems.

Skills

API-driven applications

Distributed systems

Cloud data stores (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)

Streaming data systems (Kafka, Flink, Pulsar)

Operational systems support

Server-side programming (Python)

Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)

Interpersonal and communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Terraform

Job description

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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. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we’re inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together.

From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone.

And we’re just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we’re looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. 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.

US Based:

Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, or New York 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

$158,000/year to $245,000/year + benefits + equity

The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills, and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below) or equity.

Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
• Work From Home Support
• Home office setup allowance
• Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
• Care benefits
• Monthly allowance for wellness
• Annual allowance towards Childcare
• Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
• Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
• Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
• We expect all employees to actively use the product!
• Parental Leave
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.
  

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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