Base Salary
$207k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define technical direction and lead development of critical data platform systems.
- Build and evolve data orchestration and streaming platforms for production use across the company.
- Design scalable, reliable, multi-tenant data infrastructure and stateful real-time data pipelines.
- Own scalability, performance, reliability, SLOs, monitoring, and operational excellence for data processing systems.
- Build systems supporting real-time analytics, event-driven applications, and machine learning infrastructure.
- Make architectural decisions and partner cross-functionally to implement data system integrations.
- Apply DevOps/SRE practices, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and incident response.
- Help shape architecture across orchestration, stream processing, real-time systems, analytics, and content understanding.
- Define and enforce data governance and compliance standards.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience.
- Experience writing well-tested, API-driven applications and services running at production scale.
- Track record building scalable, high-performance distributed systems.
- Strong experience with streaming data systems and/or orchestration platforms, especially at the platform layer.
- Hands-on experience designing and operating stateful, real-time data pipelines, including checkpointing, state management, and watermarking.
- Experience evaluating architectural tradeoffs in data processing and orchestration systems.
- Experience building multi-tenant or end-to-end data infrastructure for multiple teams or production use cases.
- Expertise managing cloud data stores and data lake architectures.
- Experience supporting operational systems through monitoring, alerting, incident management, and reliability practices.
- Familiarity with DevOps/SRE practices and CI/CD tooling, including GitHub and GitHub Actions.
- Understanding of data governance and compliance principles such as access controls, retention policies, and auditability.
- Experience with AWS or Google Cloud and infrastructure-as-code approaches such as Terraform.
- Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language, preferably Python, along with algorithms, data structures, and software design principles.
- Ability to work autonomously with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Benefits
- Generous holiday and time-off policy.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
- Work-from-home support, including home-office, cell-phone, and internet allowances.
- Care benefits, wellness allowance, and childcare support.
- Family-planning benefits including adoption or fertility expenses.
- 401(k) with employer match up to 4% of base salary in the US and pension plans internationally.
- Monthly allowance to use the Whatnot app as both a buyer and seller.
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave plus a one-month gradual return to work.
- Remote co-located work with hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia.
Tech Stack
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About Whatnot
Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in the US, UK, and Europe. Millions of people come to Whatnot every day to buy, sell, and connect over the things they love, from sneakers to sports cards, vintage fashion to fine jewelry, comics to Pokémon, beauty, electronics, and hundreds of other categories. In 2025, live sales on Whatnot surpassed $8B, more than doubling the year before. Over 20 million accounts were created last year alone, and we have been the #1 shopping app in both the US and UK. We've built a real business, but we're nowhere near done. Live commerce at this scale has never been done in the West, which means the people here now are shaping how an entirely new industry develops. The pace here is fast and the expectations are high. We move quickly, prioritize ruthlessly, and trust people to own their work end-to-end. In return, careers grow faster, impact is real, and your colleagues will raise your standards. It's an environment built for people who want to do the best work of their careers alongside others doing the same. We're a remote, co-located team with hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, and we're hiring across every function.