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Software Engineer, Trust Experience

Whatnot
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Hybrid (Remote (US) with SF/LA proximity)$170k - $230kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Whatnot’s Trust Experience role focuses on building systems to protect the platform, balance risk with user experience, and respond in real time to threats. It is a remote-friendly position with hubs in SF/LA and requires 4+ years in software engineering with Python, plus domain experience in Trust/Risk or Fraud preferred.

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

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, a related technical field, or equivalent work experience.
  • 1+ years of experience writing production code in Python.
  • 1+ years of experience in Trust and Risk or Integrity or Fraud domains preferred.
  • Business intuition & a data-driven mindset; explicit data science or machine-learning experience is a huge plus.
  • Obsession with impact and a track record of deploying simple solutions.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset, curiosity, and ability to work autonomously and lead initiatives across multiple product areas.
  • Comfort with data warehouses and transformation tools such as Snowflake, dbt, Dagster.
  • Professionalism in remote collaboration and well-tested reproducible work.
  • Above-average documentation and communication skills.

Skills

Required:PythonData warehousing / transformation tools
Nice to have:Trust and Risk / Integrity / Fraud domain

Benefits

  • Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
  • Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
  • Work From Home Support
  • Care benefits
  • 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
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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