Software Engineer – Data
| Company | WhatNot |
|---|---|
| Location | Seattle, WA, USA, San Francisco, CA, USA, Los Angeles, CA, USA, New York, NY, USA |
| Salary | $158000 – $245000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience
- Ability to write well-tested, API-driven applications and services that run at scale in production
- Track record of building scalable and performant distributed systems
- Expertise in managing cloud data stores (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, etc.) for processing and serving data products
- Expertise in streaming data systems such as Kafka, Flink, or Pulsar, and the ability to design and manage real-time processing pipelines at scale
- Strong experience supporting operational systems to ensure uptime, reliability, and maintainability, including monitoring, alerting, and incident management
- Experience managing cloud technologies (AWS or Google Cloud) and comfort with infrastructure-as-code approaches (e.g. Terraform)
- Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language (preferably Python), common algorithms and data structures, and software design principles
- Self-starter ethic, thriving under a high level of autonomy
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
Responsibilities
- Define the technical direction and lead the development of the retrieval platform
- Drive innovation and ensure the scalability and performance of systems
- Work with a team of engineers to deliver high-quality solutions
- Make key decisions about how to integrate data systems at Whatnot
- Align efforts to optimize aspects of the company’s architecture, such as machine learning, real-time analytics, stream processing, and content understanding
Preferred Qualifications
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No preferred qualifications provided.