Whatnot
Data Engineer, Payments
$180K–$260K
San Francisco, CA +3 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Jul 22, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, NY
Los Angeles, CA
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 7+ years.
About the job
Build and operate reliable data architecture, pipelines, and data products for Whatnot’s payments and finance teams and company-wide analytics and applications.
What you'll do
- Own data architecture and build high-volume streaming and batch pipelines.
- Create canonical data models and implement data quality, monitoring, lineage, and reconciliation systems.
- Automate operational workflows and provide high-quality data for analytics, ML, and product teams.
What they ask for
- 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.
- Hands-on expertise across data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and observability tooling.
- Production-grade Python or SQL; experience operating cloud data warehouses and integrating with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
Pay
$180K - $260K (base salary)
Tools
Kafka, Debezium, dbt, Spark, Flink, Dagster, Airflow, Snowflake
AI focus
Support analytics, ML, and real-time applications with foundational data products and models.
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