Data Engineer, Payments

Whatnot

Data Engineer at Whatnot building data architectures and resilient pipelines for data-driven decisions. Collaborating with finance and payment teams to support internal and external growth with data products.

Posted 7/22/2026full-timeRemote • California, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $180,000 - $260,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in data architecture, including the design and implementation of data models and pipelines that support analytics and machine learning. Proficient in modern data tooling and cloud data warehouse operations, ensuring data quality and operational efficiency.

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Data Architecture OwnershipData Modeling TechniquesCloud Data Warehouse OperationsModern Data Tooling ExpertiseProduction-Grade Code Development

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Hard Skills

Data Warehouse DesignData ModelingPython ProgrammingSQL ProgrammingEvent-Driven ArchitectureData Quality AssuranceData Pipeline DevelopmentCost OptimizationWorkload TuningAutomation of Workflows

Soft Skills

Cross-Disciplinary CollaborationSelf-Starter AttitudeProblem-Solving

Tools & Technologies

KafkaDebeziumDbtSparkFlinkDagsterAirflowMonte CarloGreat ExpectationsSnowflake

Industry Keywords

Data IngestionData TransformationObservabilityDimensional ModelingData VaultLedger-Style TechniquesReal-Time ApplicationsAnalytics SupportOperational TelemetryData Contracts

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAmazon RedshiftBigQueryCloudKafkaPythonSparkSQLVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own data architecture end-to-end. Define how we capture, model, and serve critical business data then implement it in production. You’ll make architectural decisions around storage formats, compute patterns, and SLAs that balance cost, scalability, and consistency.
Build mission-critical pipelines. Develop and operate streaming and batch data workflows that process high-volume events across multiple domains user activity, transactions, experimentation, marketing performance, and operational telemetry with tight guarantees for latency, completeness, and accuracy.
Design and implement canonical models. Create domain-oriented data models that serve as the source of truth for analytics, ML, and real-time applications. Establish and enforce modeling standards, ownership boundaries, and data contracts across teams.
Enforce data quality at scale. Build tests, lineage, monitoring, and reconciliation systems that make every dataset observable and every anomaly actionable.
Automate operational workflows. Partner with business systems and platform teams to eliminate manual data handoffs and reconcile data across services, warehouses, and external systems.
Enable insights and experimentation. Support analytics, ML, and product engineering teams by exposing high-quality, low-latency data through semantic layers, APIs, and real-time query systems.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have a minimum of 3+ years of experience as a data or software engineer building data warehouses, distributed data systems, or event-driven architectures.
Can design and implement data models using dimensional, Data Vault, or ledger-style techniques that support analytical and transactional workloads.
Have deep hands-on expertise with modern data tooling across ingestion (e.g., Kafka, Debezium), transformation (dbt, Spark, Flink), orchestration (Dagster, Airflow), and observability (Monte Carlo, Great Expectations).
Have operated cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift, including schema design, cost optimization, and workload tuning.
Are comfortable writing production-grade code in Python or SQL languages, and integrating with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
Enjoy partnering across disciplines engineering, product, analytics to translate messy business requirements into elegant data systems.
Thrive as a self-starter in a fast-moving environment, owning both the technical design and the operational outcomes of your work.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
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
Parental Leave
16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work