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Senior Production Engineer

Whatnot· Engineering
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Hybrid (Remote (US) / Dublin)€131k - €145kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior Production Engineer role focused on embedding with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, performance, and scalability for live video and real-time commerce at Whatnot. Remote-friendly with Dublin hub requirement for onsite proximity.

Responsibilities

  • Go deep with the embedded team to raise reliability, performance, and scalability of their systems and write the code to achieve it.
  • Hunt anomalies across traffic, latency, error, and cost signals inside and between teams, tracing to root cause across services, storage, and clients.
  • Connect operational signals to business impact: determine degradations that matter, for which cohorts, and which are safe to leave alone.
  • Work where the risk concentrates: payments, live video, search, bidding path, and security.
  • Eliminate scale bottlenecks in production, then remove the class of problem rather than the instance.
  • Prepare for peak events through capacity modeling, load testing, and failure drills.
  • Improve observability where it's thin, enabling faster anomaly detection.
  • Put AI to work on operations: anomaly detection, on-call assistance, remediation, toil reduction (mostly greenfield).
  • Share on-call with the team you embed with and act as escalation point for live production incidents.
  • Lead incident response for complex cross-team failures and drive systemic fixes.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • 6+ years building and debugging production services at scale.
  • Strong systems and distributed systems fundamentals: failure modes, saturation, queueing, cascading failures, Linux, networking, and storage under load.
  • Depth in observability and production debugging; experience in capacity/performance engineering, load/resilience testing, incident command, or large-scale migrations.
  • Ability to work well embedded in other teams and earn trust quickly.
  • Fluency across languages and cloud-native environments (AWS or GCP) with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code; backend in Python and Elixir, Go for performance-sensitive infrastructure.
  • Bonus: experience with high-traffic, real-time, event-driven, or live streaming systems.

Skills

Required:Production engineeringDistributed systemsObservability and debuggingCloud and IaC

Benefits

  • Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including spring and winter break)
  • Health Insurance options (Medical, Dental, Vision)
  • Work From Home Support
  • Care benefits
  • Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in US (employer match up to 4%) 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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