Whatnot
Senior Production Engineer
$207K–$230K
San Francisco, CA +3 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 26, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, NY
Los Angeles, CA
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 6+ years building and debugging production services at scale; backgrounds may include software engineering, production engineering, SRE, or systems engineering.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
About the job
Embeds with engineering teams to improve production reliability, performance, and scalability, investigate cross-service issues, and lead incident response for Whatnot’s live commerce platform.
What you'll do
- Find and fix production anomalies and bottlenecks, tracing causes across services, storage, and clients.
- Improve observability and prepare systems for peak events through capacity modeling, load testing, and failure drills.
- Share on-call, lead complex incident response, and drive lasting systemic fixes.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Strong systems and distributed systems fundamentals, including Linux, networking, and storage under load.
- Depth in observability and production debugging, plus experience in at least one of capacity/performance engineering, load/resilience testing, incident command, or large-scale migrations.
- Fluency across languages and technologies; comfort with cloud-native environments such as AWS or GCP, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code.
Nice to have
- Experience with high-traffic, real-time, event-driven, or live streaming systems.
Pay
$207K - $230K (USD; base salary or total pay not specified)
Tools
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Python, Elixir, Go, Linux
AI focus
Apply AI to operations, including anomaly detection, on-call assistance, remediation, and toil reduction.
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