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Engineering Manager, Data Infrastructure

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In-Office
4 Locations
230K-260K Annually
Senior level
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4 Locations
230K-260K Annually
Senior level
The Engineering Manager will lead the Data Infrastructure team, managing projects, developing systems for data-intensive features, and hiring top engineers.
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🚀 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

The Data Platforms team is builds scalable data movement, transformation, and retrieval platforms on Whatnot. As the Engineering Manager of the Data Infrastructure team, you’ll focus on developing, maintaining, and setting the vision for systems that enables Whatnot engineers to develop data-intensive product features at lightning speed, while unlocking cutting-edge production use cases, like real-time analytics, search, and AI.

In addition, you’ll:

  • hire and develop engineers across all platform applications and backend systems.

  • collaborate with product engineering, analytics, and infrastructure engineering counterparts to set strategic direction of the team, advocating for platform solutions that help us grow Whatnot as a whole.

  • plan and manage projects, coordinating and aligning your team‘s goals against others across the business.

Required to be within commuting distance of our Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, or San Francisco Hubs

👋 About You

In addition to embodying our cultural principles, great candidates will also:

  • have hands-on experience with public cloud environments (AWS, GCP) using Kubernetes, Docker, and IaC tools like Terraform.

  • have previous experience at a hyper-growth startup. You’re an excellent problem solver and a self-starter who can hit the ground running with little direction.

  • be a technical leader with hands-on experience in streaming (e.g. Kafka, Clickhouse), production data stores (e.g. Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis), or analytics systems (e.g. Snowflake, Iceberg) at scale.

  • have experience leading a team of engineers, guiding them through both their career development, and executing in a high growth environment.

  • be low ego, have an appetite to build, and employ good judgment in making hard trade-offs with limited resources.

  • effectively recruit, mentor, retain, and measure high performing teams.

  • effectively manage stakeholders, competing priorities and deal with ambiguity

  • have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

🎁 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

    • All Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product. We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).

  • 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.

Top Skills

AWS
Clickhouse
Docker
DynamoDB
GCP
Iceberg
Kafka
Kubernetes
Postgres
Redis
Snowflake
Terraform

Whatnot Seattle, Washington, USA Office

Seattle, WA, United States

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