Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe. They are seeking a Software Engineer for their Data Platform team to define technical direction and lead the development of critical data platform systems that enhance their core product experience.

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 Flink platform, helping drive stream processing from early platform investment to production-ready usage across the company
• Design scalable, reliable, multi-tenant streaming 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 stream 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 stream processing, real-time systems, analytics, and content understanding

Skills

• 5+ years of experience
• 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 such as Kafka, Flink, or Pulsar, with particular strength in building or evolving the platform layer itself — not just downstream pipelines
• Hands-on experience designing and operating stateful real-time data pipelines at scale, including concepts like checkpointing, state management, and watermarking
• Experience evaluating architectural tradeoffs in stream processing systems, including when Flink is the right solution and when it is not
• Experience building multi-tenant or end-to-end streaming infrastructure that supports multiple teams or production use cases
• Expertise in managing cloud data stores (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, etc.) for processing and serving data products
• Strong experience supporting operational systems to ensure uptime, reliability, and maintainability, including monitoring, alerting, and incident management
• Experience managing cloud technologies (AWS or Google Cloud) and comfort with infrastructure-as-code approaches (for example, Terraform)
• Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language (preferably Python), common algorithms and data structures, and software design principles
• Self-starter ethic, with the ability to thrive under a high level of autonomy
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills

Benefits

• Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
• Work From Home Support
• Home office setup allowance
• Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
• Monthly allowance for wellness
• Annual allowance towards Childcare
• Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
• Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
• Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
• Parental Leave
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work \•company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

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