This role is designed for a seasoned engineering leader with a decade of experience in infrastructure and at least five years of people management. The ideal ca
Work type: onsite
Location: San Francisco, CA | Los Angeles, CA | Seattle, WA | New York, NY
Salary: $270,000 – $305,000/yr
Type: Full-time
This role is designed for a seasoned engineering leader with a decade of experience in infrastructure and at least five years of people management. The ideal candidate has a deep background in scaling backend systems and real-time services for high-growth marketplaces. You should be a "multiplier" who doesn't just manage people, but actively improves developer ergonomics and velocity across the entire engineering organization. The compensation is highly competitive, ranging from **$270,000 to $305,000/year** plus significant benefits. While the company operates as a "remote co-located" team, you must live within commuting distance of their hubs in **SF, LA, Seattle, or NYC** for in-person collaboration. Notable perks include a 4% 401k match, a dogfooding budget to shop on the app, and comprehensive family-planning benefits. **You might be a good fit if you:** * Have managed high-performing platform teams at a rapidly scaling startup or major tech firm. * Are passionate about architecting storage infrastructure and real-time distributed systems. * Believe that "developer experience" is a product and know how to reduce friction for internal teams. * Enjoy "dogfooding" the product you build to understand the user journey firsthand.
## 🚀 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. Whether it's trading cards, fashion, electronics, or live plants, our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories. We're building live commerce at a scale that's never been done in the West, and there's no playbook to copy. The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops.
As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our [values](https://www.whatnot.com/careers) and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia. We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact.
We're one of the [fastest growing marketplaces](https://a16z.com/marketplace-100/) and were recently named the [#1 Best Startup Employer in America](http://google.com/search?q=%231+forbes+startup+employer&oq=%231+forbes+startup+employer&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRg9MgYIAhBFGD0yBggDEEUYQDIGCAQQRRhAMgYIBRBFGEDSAQg1NzM0ajBqMagCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) by Forbes. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our [news](https://blog.teamwhatnot.com/) and [engineering blogs](https://medium.com/whatnot-engineering) and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.
## 💻 Role
As a senior leader in our Infrastructure team, you will play a pivotal role in the growth and evolution of Whatnot’s platform. You will oversee our Platform Engineering team, working closely with engineering, product, and operations teams to build scalable, reliable, and performant systems that will support millions of users as we continue to scale.
Responsibilities:
## 👋 You
In addition to embodying[ our cultural principles](https://www.whatnot.com/careers#:~:text=time%20and%20schedule.-,Our%20Principles,-Be%20part%20of), great candidates will also have:
## 💛 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.