Software Engineer, Data

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🚀 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. 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, Germany, Ireland, and Poland, we’re building the future of online marketplaces –together.
From fashion, beauty, and electronics to 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  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.
We offer flexibility to work from home or from one of our global office hubs, and we value in‑person time for planning, problem-solving, and connection. Team members in this role must live within commuting distance of our New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco hubs.

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, Big Query, 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.

For Full‑Time (Salary) US based applicants: $230,000/year to $290,000/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.

• Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
• Work From Home Support
• Home office setup allowance
• Monthly allowance for…