Data Engineer, Payments

🕒 July 22

🏄 California, New York, +1 more states – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $180k - $260k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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Whatnot

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2021

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

💰 $260M Series D on 2022-07

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Whatnot is a dynamic online marketplace platform that facilitates live shopping experiences. Users can buy, sell, and discover products they love, engaging in a community-driven environment through live shows. Whatnot ensures a secure shopping experience by vetting sellers and offering protection for unsatisfactory purchases. The company values privacy, providing consent management tools for their users to control cookie usage and personal data processing.

📋 Description

• Own data architecture end-to-end. Define how we capture, model, and serve critical business data then implement it in production. You’ll make architectural decisions around storage formats, compute patterns, and SLAs that balance cost, scalability, and consistency. • Build mission-critical pipelines. Develop and operate streaming and batch data workflows that process high-volume events across multiple domains user activity, transactions, experimentation, marketing performance, and operational telemetry with tight guarantees for latency, completeness, and accuracy. • Design and implement canonical models. Create domain-oriented data models that serve as the source of truth for analytics, ML, and real-time applications. Establish and enforce modeling standards, ownership boundaries, and data contracts across teams. • Enforce data quality at scale. Build tests, lineage, monitoring, and reconciliation systems that make every dataset observable and every anomaly actionable. • Automate operational workflows. Partner with business systems and platform teams to eliminate manual data handoffs and reconcile data across services, warehouses, and external systems. • Enable insights and experimentation. Support analytics, ML, and product engineering teams by exposing high-quality, low-latency data through semantic layers, APIs, and real-time query systems.

🎯 Requirements

• Have a minimum of 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 that support analytical and transactional workloads. • Have 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. • Are 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 messy business requirements into elegant data systems. • Thrive as a self-starter in a fast-moving environment, owning both the technical design and the operational outcomes of your work.

🏖️ 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