Whatnot is seeking a Data Engineer to build foundational data systems that power product development, experimentation, machine learning, and operational decision-making. The Data Engineer will own and evolve one of the highest-volume and highest-impact data domains at Whatnot, defining the technical direction for the Notifications data mart and hardening it to production-grade reliability.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in the data or software engineering domain
- Strong experience building and maintaining production-grade data pipelines with clear SLAs, monitoring, and alerting
- Deep expertise in SQL, including complex model graphs, dependency management, and performance optimization
- Comfortable writing production-grade code in Python or SQL languages, and integrating with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code workflows
- Deep hands-on expertise with modern data tooling across ingestion (e.g., Kafka, Debezium), transformation (dbt, Spark, Flink), orchestration (Dagster, Airflow), and observability (Monte Carlo, Great Expectations)
- Operated cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift, including schema design, cost optimization, and workload tuning
- Proven track record working with large-scale datasets (hundreds of millions of rows per day)
- Experience designing data models that balance analytics, ML, and operational debugging use cases
- Strong systems thinking — considering correctness, latency, cost, and maintainability together
- Self-starter ethic, thriving under a high level of autonomy
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills in cross-functional environments
Benefits
- Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
- Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
- Work From Home Support
- Home office setup allowance
- Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
- Care benefits
- Monthly allowance for wellness
- Annual allowance towards Childcare
- Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
- Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
- Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
- Parental Leave
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work
