Whatnot

Software Engineer, IAM

Whatnot

full-time

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

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Salary

💰 $230,000 - $260,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerElixirGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptKubernetesPythonSpringTerraform

About the role

  • Work in cross-functional, multidisciplinary teams to shape the security and integrity of user account systems
  • Minimize risk and potential abuse by ensuring robust authentication, authorization, and access controls across the environment
  • Deliver secure-by-default infrastructure, scalable permissioning systems, and reliable storage for sensitive user data
  • Empower other teams to move fast without compromising user trust
  • Contribute designs, code, and ideas to solve complex technical challenges and help define future engineering initiatives
  • Sample projects include Authentication, Authorization, Permissions, Access control systems, and building secure storage for PII user data
  • Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, or New York hubs

Requirements

  • 5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience building scalable systems that can handle millions of users
  • Experience with large distributed systems handling substantial traffic
  • Previous experience at a hyper-growth startup; self-starter who can hit the ground running with little direction
  • Self-driven with result-oriented mindset
  • Excellent communication and writing skills
  • Exceptional coding skills and the ability to ship new products quickly; primarily use Python, Elixir, JavaScript (previous knowledge not required)
  • Knowledge in cryptography, networking, authentication, and authorization
  • Experience implementing security measures such as encryption, access controls, data minimization, and regular audits to safeguard PII
  • Nice to have: experience in public cloud environments (AWS, GCP) using Kubernetes, Docker, and/or Terraform
  • Nice to have: startup experience at high-growth companies
  • Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, or New York hubs
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States (application asks)