Software Engineer, Whatnot

• As our next member of the team, you should have 3+ years of experience, plus some or all of the following:
• Ability to write well-tested, API-driven applications and services that run at scale in production
• Track record of building scalable and performant distributed systems
• Expertise in managing cloud data stores (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, etc.) for processing and serving data products
• Expertise in streaming data systems such as Kafka, Flink, or Pulsar, and the ability to design and manage real-time processing pipelines at scale
• Strong experience supporting operational systems to ensure uptime, reliability, and maintainability, including monitoring, alerting, and incident management

Desirable

• The Data team at Whatnot creates services that improve our core product experience and unlock business value
• As an engineer, you will play a critical role in defining the technical direction and leading the development of the retrieval platform to power next-gen systems at Whatnot
• You will be responsible for driving innovation, ensuring the scalability and performance of our systems, and working with a team of engineers to deliver high-quality solutions
• Working in a highly cross-functional role, you’ll also make key decisions about how we integrate data systems at Whatnot – and then make it happen
• You’ll be positioned to align efforts to optimize other aspects of our company’s architecture, such as machine learning, real-time analytics, stream processing, and content understanding to name a few