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We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact.\nWe're one of the fastest growing marketplaces and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.\nRole\nThe Data Foundations team at Whatnot builds services that improve our core product experience and unlock meaningful business value. In this role, you will:\nDefine technical direction and lead development of critical data platform systems that power next-generation capabilities at Whatnot\nLead 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\nDesign scalable, reliable, multi-tenant data infrastructure rather than simply building pipelines on top of an existing platform\nOwn core platform concerns including scalability, performance, reliability, SLOs, and operational excellence for data processing systems\nBuild high-quality systems that support real-time analytics, event-driven applications, and machine learning infrastructure needs across Whatnot\nMake key decisions about how data systems should be integrated across Whatnot, and then partner cross-functionally to bring that architecture to life\nCollaborate closely with engineering partners across product, platform, machine learning, and data to enable fast, safe, and scalable development\nHelp shape broader company architecture across orchestration, stream processing, real-time systems, analytics, and content understanding\nApply DevOps/SRE practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and incident response, to keep platform systems reliable at scale\nHelp define and enforce data governance and compliance standards across our data lake and downstream systems\nYou\nAs our next Software Engineer, Data Foundations, you should have 8+ years of experience, plus:\nAbility to write well-tested, API-driven applications and services that run at scale in production\nTrack record of building scalable, high-performance distributed systems\nStrong experience with streaming data systems (e.g., Kafka, Flink, or Pulsar) and/or orchestration platforms (e.g., Airflow, Dagster, or Temporal), with particular strength in building or evolving the platform layer itself, not just downstream pipelines.\nHands-on experience designing and operating stateful, real-time data pipelines at scale, including concepts like checkpointing, state management, and watermarking\nExperience evaluating architectural tradeoffs in data processing and orchestration systems, including when a given tool is the right solution and when it is not\nExperience building multi-tenant or end-to-end data infrastructure that supports multiple teams or production use cases\nExpertise in managing cloud data stores (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, etc.) and data lake architectures (e.g., AWS S3) for processing and serving data products\nStrong experience supporting operational systems to ensure uptime, reliability, and maintainability, including monitoring, alerting, and incident management\nFamiliarity with DevOps/SRE practices and CI/CD tooling, including GitHub and GitHub Actions\nUnderstanding of data governance and compliance principles (e.g., data access controls, retention policies, auditability)\nIn addition to these role-specific qualifications, all engineering team members are expected to have:\nExperience managing cloud technologies (AWS or Google Cloud) and comfort with infrastructure-as-code approaches (for example, Terraform)\nProficiency in at least one server-side programming language (preferably Python), common algorithms and data structures, and software design principles\nSelf-starter ethic, with the ability to thrive under a high level of autonomy\nExceptional interpersonal and communication skills\n\nBenefits\nGenerous Holiday and Time off Policy\nHealth Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision\nWork From Home Support\nHome office setup allowance\nMonthly allowance for cell phone and internet\nCare benefits\nMonthly allowance for wellness\nAnnual allowance towards Childcare\nLifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses\nRetirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally\nMonthly allowance to dogfood the app\nAll Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product. We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).\nParental Leave\n16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.\nEOE\nWhatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. 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