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Data Engineer, Payments

Whatnot· Engineering
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Remote$180k - $260kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Data Engineer role at Whatnot focusing on building and scaling data systems to power payments, finance, and analytics. Remote (US) with presence in NYC/Seattle/LA/San Francisco hubs preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Own data architecture end-to-end. Define how we capture, model, and serve critical business data then implement it in production. You’ll make architectural decisions around storage formats, compute patterns, and SLAs that balance cost, scalability, and consistency.
  • Build mission-critical pipelines. Develop and operate streaming and batch data workflows that process high-volume events across domains such as user activity, transactions, experimentation, marketing performance, and operational telemetry with tight guarantees for latency, completeness, and accuracy.
  • Design and implement canonical models. Create domain-oriented data models that serve as the source of truth for analytics, ML, and real-time applications. Establish and enforce modeling standards, ownership boundaries, and data contracts across teams.
  • Enforce data quality at scale. Build tests, lineage, monitoring, and reconciliation systems that make every dataset observable and every anomaly actionable.
  • Automate operational workflows. Partner with business systems and platform teams to eliminate manual data handoffs and reconcile data across services, warehouses, and external systems.
  • Enable insights and experimentation. Support analytics, ML, and product engineering teams by exposing high-quality, low-latency data through semantic layers, APIs, and real-time query systems.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience as a data or software engineer building data warehouses, distributed data systems, or event-driven architectures.
  • Design and implement data models using dimensional, Data Vault, or ledger-style techniques.
  • Deep hands-on expertise with ingestion (Kafka, Debezium), transformation (dbt, Spark, Flink), orchestration (Dagster, Airflow), and observability (Monte Carlo, Great Expectations).
  • Experience with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift including schema design, cost optimization, and workload tuning.
  • Proficiency writing production-grade code in Python or SQL, and integrating with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
  • Ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and analytics teams; translate messy business requirements into data systems.
  • Self-starter in fast-moving environments, owning both design and operational outcomes.

Skills

Required:Data modeling (dimensional/Data Vault/ledger style)Data ingestionData transformationOrchestrationObservabilityCloud data warehousesProgrammingCI/CD & IaC

Benefits

  • Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
  • Health Insurance options including 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.

marketplacee-commerce
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