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Software Engineer, Safety Experience

Whatnot· Engineering
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Hybrid (New York / Los Angeles / Seattle)$170k - $230kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Role focused on building and operating safety systems for Whatnot's live marketplace, balancing protection with user experience, and delivering real-time, scalable solutions across multiple surfaces and platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop systems to protect the platform: Build and iterate on production algorithms and infrastructures that mitigate systemic risks and safeguard buyers, sellers, and the broader Whatnot community.
  • Balance risk and user experience: Proactively monitor the impact of protective systems on trusted users, ensuring interventions deliver more value than friction.
  • Respond in real time to threats: Architect event-driven pipelines and detection frameworks that enable near real-time responses to high-risk user behavior.
  • Contribute across the full development lifecycle: Engage in ideation, scoping, prototyping, load testing, deployment, and monitoring to deliver resilient and scalable solutions.
  • Drive cross-team initiatives: Collaborate across multiple product surfaces and operational teams, surfacing insights to leadership and stakeholders through dashboards, notebooks, and clear written documentation.
  • Continuously evolve defenses: Stay ahead of emerging abuse patterns, abuse vectors, and account integrity risks by iterating quickly and rigorously testing solutions.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
  • Business intuition & data-driven mindset; explicit data science or machine-learning experience is a huge plus
  • Demonstrated impact-focused mindset with ability to deploy simple, high-value solutions
  • Autonomous work style with ability to lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings to leadership
  • Comfort with data warehouses and transformation tools (e.g., Snowflake, dbt, Dagster)

Skills

Required:Software engineeringReal-time systemsCommunication with leadership
Nice to have:Data analysis / data-driven decision making

Benefits

  • Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
  • Health Insurance options (Medical, Dental, Vision)
  • Work From Home Support
  • Care benefits
  • Retirement; 401k with employer match up to 4% (US) and Pension internationally
  • Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
  • Parental Leave
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Whatnot

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in the U.S.

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in the U.S., connecting buyers and sellers in real-time across any category – from collectibles like trading cards to comics, fashion, sneakers, and more.

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