This role is ideal for a seasoned infrastructure or security-minded engineer with at least 5 years of experience, specifically within hyper-growth startup envir
Work type: onsite
Location: San Francisco, CA | Los Angeles, CA | Seattle, WA | New York, NY
Salary: $180,000 – $250,000/yr
Type: Full-time
This role is ideal for a seasoned infrastructure or security-minded engineer with at least 5 years of experience, specifically within hyper-growth startup environments. You should be comfortable building large-scale distributed systems and have a deep technical interest in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM). While the stack includes Python, Elixir, and JavaScript, the team values architectural expertise in cryptography, authentication protocols, and PII data protection over specific language fluency. The compensation is highly competitive, ranging from $180,000 to $250,000, complemented by a robust benefits package. This includes unique perks like a "dogfooding" budget to shop on the platform, an employer 401k match, and generous family planning benefits. While the team is "remote co-located," you must live within commuting distance of their hubs in SF, LA, NYC, or Seattle for in-person collaboration. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have designed and scaled authorization or permissioning systems for millions of users. * Thrive in fast-paced environments where you can ship code "lightning-fast" with minimal direction. * Are an expert in security fundamentals like encryption, access controls, and data minimization. * Enjoy the intersection of infrastructure engineering and user trust.
## 🚀 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
You will work in cross-functional, multidisciplinary teams, allowing you to directly shape the security and integrity of our user account systems. Your goal will be to minimize risk and potential abuse by ensuring robust authentication, authorization, and access controls across our environment. You will empower other teams to move fast without compromising user trust by delivering secure-by-default infrastructure, scalable permissioning systems, and reliable storage for sensitive user data.
Your designs, code, and ideas will contribute to solving some of the most complex technical challenges we face today and help define future engineering initiatives.
Some sample projects you might work on are:
We offer flexibility to work from home or from one of our global office hubs, and we value in-person time for planning, problem-solving, and connection. Team members in this role must live within commuting distance of our San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City or Seattle hubs.
## 👋 You
People who do well at Whatnot tend to be comfortable figuring things out as they go, biased toward action, and genuinely curious about what they're building. They care more about outcomes than credit and stay close to the product and the people using it.
As our next Software Engineer, you should have 5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience, building scalable systems that can handle millions of users, plus:
## 💛 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.