Whatnot
Software Engineer, Data Developer Platform
$200K–$275K
San Francisco, CA +3 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, NY
Los Angeles, CA
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 8+ years
About the job
Leads the design and development of scalable data platform systems for orchestration, streaming, real-time analytics, and machine learning infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Lead development of data orchestration and streaming platforms, including their production rollout across the company.
- Design and operate reliable, multi-tenant data infrastructure, owning scalability, performance, SLOs, and operational excellence.
- Shape data architecture and governance, and apply DevOps/SRE practices in partnership with engineering teams.
What they ask for
- Ability to build well-tested, API-driven services and scalable distributed systems.
- Strong experience with streaming data systems and/or orchestration platforms, especially at the platform layer.
- Hands-on experience designing and operating stateful real-time data pipelines at scale.
- Experience building multi-tenant data infrastructure and operating cloud data stores and data lake architectures.
Pay
$200K - $275K (base salary; currency not stated)
Tools
Kafka, Flink, Pulsar, Airflow, Dagster, Temporal, Snowflake, BigQuery
AI focus
Builds data infrastructure supporting machine learning needs; no specific AI development work is stated.
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