Software Engineer, Infrastructure

🚀 Whatnot

Whatnot is a livestream shopping platform and marketplace backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and CapitalG. We’re building the future of ecommerce, bringing together community, shopping and entertainment. We are committed to our values, whether working remotely or from one of our offices. We are building a team that has experience from top tech, retail and payments platforms in the world.

We’re innovating in the fast-paced world of live auctions in categories including sports, fashion, video games, and streetwear. The platform couples rigorous seller vetting with a focus on community to create a welcoming space for buyers and sellers to share their passions with others.

And, we’re growing. Whatnot has been the fastest growing marketplace in the US over the past two years and we’re hiring forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas.

📈 Opportunity Size

Retail disruption is one of the largest opportunities in the startup space today. Livestream shopping is taking off around the world – a $300B GMV market in China that’s grown 100% YoY. Whatnot is bringing it to the world through a community-first approach, starting in the U.S. where retail is a $5T market opportunity!

💻 Role

As part of the infrastructure team, you will be responsible for building and scaling Whatnot’s best-in-class live streaming and marketplace service for all of our users.  You will be building the foundations for Whatnot’s future across reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems.

• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of production systems.
• Work with the engineering team to get services deployed across different environments.
• Scale for capacity and traffic spikes of 20x normal load during high-volume events
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
• Maintain an efficient CI/CD pipeline to help developers ship the software faster and safer in a structured environment.

👋 About You

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here.

• You have experience in scaling a hyper-growth startup.
• 5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience building scalable systems that can handle millions of users.
• Prior experience in a public cloud environment (AWS, GCP).
• Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform experience required.
• Expert knowledge of various CI/CD workflows.
• You are known for shipping lightning fast.
• Excellent communication/writing skills.
• Self-starter. You will be able to hit the ground running with little direction.
• You can write code - experience programming in a professional setting (we primarily use Python, Elixir, JavaScript - knowledge of these in particular not required).
• Lastly, Whatnot fosters a culture of being exceptionally user-focused, moving incredibly fast, taking big swings, and having a “figure-it-out” mentality. These principles have held up time and time again, and allowed us to create something that has changed countless people's lives. This is why they are a core part of our principles today and we hope that you could see yourself contributing to them. 

💰Compensation

For US-based applicants: $178,000 - $235,000/year + benefits + stock options

The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below) or equity in the form of stock options.

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive base salary and stock options
• Unlimited Vacation Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Short term disability & Long term Disability
  • Whatnot covers 99% of employee premium costs, and 75% of dependent care premiums for Medical
  • Dental and Vision sponsored 100% by Whatnot for employees and dependents
• Work From Home Support
  • Laptop provided by Whatnot and home office setup allowance
  • $450 work-from-anywhere quarterly allowance for cell phone and internet
• Care benefits
  • $1,350 quarterly allowance on food
  • $1,500 quarterly allowance for wellness
  • 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave and gradual return to work
  • $5,000 annual allowance towards Childcare
  • $20,000 lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
• Professional Development
  • $2,000 annual benefit to invest in your professional development
• 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts provided by Betterment
  • Employer matching contributions of 100% of up to 4% of contributions on base salary

💛 EOE

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.