Software Engineer, Data

Whatnot

full-time

Posted on: 8/28/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California, New York, Washington

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💰 $180,000 - $215,000 per year

Mid-LevelSenior

Amazon RedshiftAWSBigQueryCloudDistributed SystemsKafkaPulsarPythonSpringTerraform

About the role

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe, blending community, shopping, and entertainment into an online marketplace
Data team creates services that improve core product experience and unlock business value; responsible for defining technical direction and leading development of the retrieval platform
Role involves driving innovation, ensuring scalability and performance, and working cross-functionally to align efforts across ML, real-time analytics, stream processing, and content understanding
US Based: team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, or New York hubs

3+ years of experience
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
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