Whatnot
Software Engineer, Data Platform
$190K–$270K
San Francisco, CA +3 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Jun 16, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, NY
Los Angeles, CA
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 5+ years.
About the job
Leads the design and development of Whatnot’s streaming data platform and infrastructure for real-time analytics, event-driven applications, and machine learning needs.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and build scalable, reliable, multi-tenant stream-processing infrastructure, including the Flink platform.
- Own scalability, performance, reliability, SLOs, and operational excellence for streaming systems.
- Partner across product, platform, machine learning, and data teams to integrate data systems and shape company architecture.
What they ask for
- Ability to build well-tested, API-driven production services and scalable distributed systems.
- Strong streaming data systems experience, including platform-layer development and operating stateful real-time pipelines at scale.
- Experience with stream-processing architecture tradeoffs and building multi-tenant or end-to-end streaming infrastructure.
- Experience managing cloud data stores and operational systems, including reliability, monitoring, alerting, and incident management.
Pay
$190K - $270K (USD, base salary)
Tools
Flink, Kafka, Pulsar, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, AWS, Google Cloud
AI focus
Builds real-time data systems that support machine learning infrastructure needs; also helps shape architecture for content understanding.
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