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Software Engineer, Data Developer Platform

Whatnot
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Remote$207k - $290kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Data Foundations role at Whatnot focusing on building scalable, multi-tenant data infrastructure, streaming/orchestration platforms, and real-time analytics to power Whatnot’s data-driven product and ML needs.

Responsibilities

  • 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 data orchestration and streaming platforms, helping drive them from early platform investment to production-ready usage across the company
  • Design scalable, reliable, multi-tenant data 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 data processing systems
  • Build high-quality systems that support real-time analytics, event-driven applications, and machine learning infrastructure needs across Whatnot
  • Make key decisions about how data systems should be integrated across Whatnot, and then partner cross-functionally to bring that architecture to life
  • Collaborate closely with engineering partners across product, platform, machine learning, and data to enable fast, safe, and scalable development
  • Help shape broader company architecture across orchestration, stream processing, real-time systems, analytics, and content understanding
  • Apply DevOps/SRE practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and incident response, to keep platform systems reliable at scale
  • Help define and enforce data governance and compliance standards across our data lake and downstream systems

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in software/data/platform engineering
  • Ability to write well-tested, API-driven applications and services that run at scale in production
  • Track record of building scalable, high-performance distributed systems
  • Strong experience with streaming data systems (e.g., Kafka, Flink, or Pulsar) and/or orchestration platforms (e.g., Airflow, Dagster, or Temporal) with platform-layer focus
  • Hands-on experience designing and operating stateful, real-time data pipelines at scale (checkpointing, state management, watermarking)
  • Experience evaluating architectural tradeoffs in data processing and orchestration systems
  • Experience building multi-tenant or end-to-end data infrastructure for multiple teams
  • Expertise in cloud data stores (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, etc.) and data lake architectures (AWS S3)
  • Strong experience with operational systems, monitoring, alerting, incident management
  • Familiarity with DevOps/SRE practices and CI/CD tooling (GitHub, GitHub Actions)
  • Understanding of data governance and compliance principles (data access controls, retention policies, auditability)
  • Experience managing cloud technologies (AWS or Google Cloud) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
  • Proficiency in at least one server-side language (preferably Python) and solid software design principles
  • Self-starter with strong communication skills

Skills

Required:API-driven software developmentDistributed systemsStreaming data systemsOrchestration platformsStateful real-time pipelinesCloud data stores and lakesDevOps / SRE practicesData governance and complianceCloud platformsInfrastructure as codePython

Benefits

  • Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
  • Health Insurance options (Medical, Dental, Vision)
  • Work From Home Support
  • Care benefits
  • Retirement; 401k with employer match (US) up to 4% 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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