Whatnot
Software Engineer, Data Developer Platform
$200K–$275K
San Francisco, CA +3 · Full-time · Posted Jul 16, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, NY
Los Angeles, CA
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 8+ years of experience.
About the job
Leads the design and development of scalable data orchestration and infrastructure platforms supporting analytics, machine learning, and data products across Whatnot.
What you'll do
- Lead development and evolution of production-ready data orchestration and multi-tenant platform systems.
- Own scalability, performance, reliability, SLOs, and operational practices for data processing infrastructure.
- Set data architecture direction and collaborate across teams on integration, governance, and compliance.
What they ask for
- Track record building scalable, high-performance distributed systems and multi-tenant or end-to-end data infrastructure.
- Strong experience building or evolving orchestration platforms and evaluating data-processing architecture tradeoffs.
- Expertise with cloud data stores and data lake architectures, plus operational reliability practices including monitoring and incident management.
- Experience with AWS or Google Cloud, infrastructure as code, and at least one server-side programming language.
Pay
$200K - $275K (USD, base salary or total pay not stated)
Tools
Airflow, Dagster, Temporal, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, AWS S3, GitHub Actions
AI focus
Builds systems supporting machine learning infrastructure and content understanding.
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