Whatnot

Software Engineer, Data Platform

San Francisco, CA · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 36 days ago

PythonDistributed SystemsData StructuresAlgorithmsBigQuerySnowflakeRedshiftAWSGCPTerraformKafkaMachine LearningData EngineeringCommunication

About the role

🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!
We're one of the fastest growing marketplaces and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes.

Define technical direction and lead development of critical data platform systems that power next-generation capabilities at Whatnot
Lead the buildout and evolution of our Flink platform, helping drive stream processing from early platform investment to production-ready usage across the company.
Design scalable, reliable, multi-tenant streaming infrastructure rather than simply building pipelines on top of an existing platform.
Own core platform concerns including scalability, performance, reliability, SLOs, and operational excellence for stream processing systems.
Make key decisions about how data systems should be integrated across Whatnot, and then partner cross-functionally to bring that architecture to life
Track record of building scalable, high-performance distributed systems
Experience building multi-tenant or end-to-end streaming infrastructure that supports multiple teams or production use cases.
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Ability to write well-tested, API-driven applications and services that run at scale in production
Strong experience with streaming data systems such as Kafka, Flink, or Pulsar, with particular strength in building or evolving the platform layer itself - not just downstream pipelines.
Hands-on experience designing and operating stateful real-time data pipelines at scale, including concepts like checkpointing, state management, and watermarking.
Experience evaluating architectural tradeoffs in stream processing systems, including when Flink is the right solution and when it is not.
Expertise in managing cloud data stores (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, etc.) for processing and serving data products
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 (for example, Terraform)
Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language (preferably Python), common algorithms and data structures, and software design principles

Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love.
Whether it's trading cards, fashion, electronics, or live plants, our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories.
We're building live commerce at a scale that's never been done in the West, and there's no playbook to copy.
The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops.
As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our values and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia.
We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact.
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.
The Data Platform team at Whatnot builds services that improve our core product experience and unlock meaningful business value.

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