Data Engineer, Trust & Risk

🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we’re inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together.

From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone.

And we’re just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we’re looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business, and bring people together through commerce.

💻 Role

Data is crucial to Whatnot’s mission to bring people together through commerce. The Data Platforms team creates solutions that improve our core product experience and enable stakeholders across the organization to act with confidence.

As our newest Data Engineer, you will partner deeply with the Trust & Risk engineering team to design scalable solutions to pressing business goals. You will build on our data architecture, unlock critical new use cases, and drive end-to-end initiatives leveraging software, data & analytics.

On any given day, you will:

• Make key decisions about how we build Trust & Risk data systems at Whatnot – and then make it happen.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of our data platform architecture. You will help craft best practices and rollouts to steer the team's direction.
• Work with key stakeholders to design data applications for internal and external audiences and various use cases, including machine learning, experimentation, and real-time analytics.
• Support efforts to optimize the entire data platform, including our real-time logging solutions, analytics databases, data warehouse, metrics store, and more.

👋 You

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

As our next Data Engineer, you should have 3+ years of experience, plus:

• Experience working with Trust & Risk data in e-commerce, fintech, or social platforms, particularly in fraud detection, policy enforcement, or abuse prevention.
• Ability to design risk-aware data models that capture patterns of fraudulent behavior, policy violations, and real-time trust signals.
• Track record in transforming large amounts of complex data into insights through the end-to-end creation of data products.
• Experience implementing real-time and batch data pipelines with tight SLOs and complex transformation requirements
• Proficiency in data architecture and modeling concepts, such as Kimball or Data Vault
• Expertise in data engineering tooling, such as ingesting, testing, transformations, lineage, orchestration, and/or semantic layers.

In addition to these role-specific qualifications, you also possess:

• 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.

💰Compensation

$158,000/year to $205,000/year + benefits + equity

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.

🎁 Benefits 

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
• 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 *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

💛 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.