Hybrid Software Engineer, Data

at Whatnot

• Job title: Software Engineer, Data
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $230,000 - $290,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Amazon Redshift, AWS, BigQuery, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Kafka, Pulsar, Python, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Software Engineer developing data systems to improve core product experience at Whatnot's live commerce platform. Leading development of scalable solutions with a high-impact focus.

Responsibilities

• Play a critical role in defining the technical direction and leading the development of the retrieval platform to power next-gen systems at Whatnot.
• Responsible for driving innovation, ensuring the scalability and performance of systems.
• Work with a team of engineers to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Make key decisions about integrating data systems at Whatnot.
• Align efforts to optimize other aspects of the company’s architecture, such as machine learning, real-time analytics, stream processing, and content understanding.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• 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 *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.