Staff Production Engineer

Whatnot Inc.; San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle (CA, CA, NY, WA); Remote; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Whatnot Inc. is seeking a Production Engineer to join our remote, globally distributed team.

You will partner with product, platform, and infrastructure squads to identify bottlenecks, fix critical issues, and improve system reliability at scale for live commerce. Live auctions and video streaming move in real time, so your work directly impacts stability and user experience across millions of transactions and buyers worldwide.

Jobbeschreibung

Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!

Whatnot is the largest live 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

That growth is the reason this role exists. Production Engineers are software engineers who embed with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to find and fix what breaks at scale. We think of them as hunters: engineers who go looking for the anomaly, the bottleneck, the slow degradation nobody has noticed yet, and then own it through to a fix, working with whoever owns the system to make sure it stays fixed.

Live video and real-time commerce run on the same critical path here. Every auction is live and money moves during the show, so system behavior and business outcomes are tightly coupled in a way few platforms experience. Milliseconds are visible to