Software Engineer – Observability

🕒 August 25

🇵🇱 Poland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

👻 Ghost score 14%

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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

• Rethink and redesign Whatnot's observability systems • Ensure visibility into the state, performance, reliability, and user experience of the software stack at 10x and 100x current scale • Collect, normalize, route, process, query, and visualize observability data • Use analytics engines and vendors to help predict incidents and enable swift resolution • Build a platform that identifies leading indicators before issues become problems • Handle high-volume, low-signal data and low-volume, high-signal data • Use open standards such as OpenTelemetry and Semconv • Interface with infrastructure to provide better management signals than CPU utilization • Correlate infrastructure, CI/CD, experimentation, and load-test events with logs and time-series data • Provide observability experiences for application engineers, incident responders, and leadership • Collaborate closely with Core Infrastructure, Platform, and Developer Tools teams • Build foundational systems and frameworks that help Whatnot scale while remaining stable and trustworthy

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems • Experience in Python, Elixir, or Go is preferred; strong engineers from other backend stacks who are eager to learn are welcome • Identify as a software engineer first and want to build systems and write code • Strong understanding of observability principles, including metrics, logs, events, and traces • Strong fundamentals in designing, building, and operating shared production services and frameworks • Experience with OpenTelemetry • Experience with OLAP databases • Experience creating developer-facing tools, libraries, or frameworks • Experience with high-traffic, real-time, or event-driven systems • Comfortable in cloud-native environments such as AWS or GCP with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Legally authorized to work in Poland

🏖️ Benefits

• New hires participate in an in-person onboarding experience at one of Whatnot's offices