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Data is crucial to Whatnot’s mission to bring people together through commerce. As our newest Data Engineer, you’ll build and scale the systems that power data-driven decisions across the company. You’ll work directly with stakeholders across the business – such as product, sales, marketing, finance, and trust teams – to design reliable data architectures, ship resilient pipelines, and create the foundational data products that power Whatnot’s internal and external growth.
Job Responsibility:
Own data architecture end-to-end
Build mission-critical pipelines
Design and implement canonical models
Enforce data quality at scale
Automate operational workflows
Enable insights and experimentation
Requirements:
3+ years of experience as a data or software engineer building data warehouses, distributed data systems, or event-driven architectures
Can design and implement data models using dimensional, Data Vault, or ledger-style techniques
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)
Have operated cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift, including schema design, cost optimization, and workload tuning
Comfortable writing production-grade code in Python or SQL languages, and integrating with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code workflows
Enjoy partnering across disciplines—engineering, product, analytics—to translate business requirements into data systems
Thrive as a self-starter in a fast-moving environment, owning both technical design and operational outcomes
What we offer:
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