Staff Data Engineer, Data Developer Platform

Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!

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Whatnot is the largest live 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 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 and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes. 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

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Data is crucial to Whatnot’s mission to bring people together through commerce.

As our newest Data Engineer, you’ll build and scale the systems that power data-driven decisions across the company. You’ll own the strategy that empowers the Analytics team’s tooling which includes but is not limited to internal reporting, agentic tooling, and experimentation.

On any given day, you will

• Own the analytics data strategy end-to-end. Define how internal reporting, business intelligence, agentic tooling, and experimentation infrastructure are architected, then drive that strategy into production. You'll make the calls on data models, tooling investments, and delivery patterns that balance speed, accuracy, and long-term scalability.
• Drive the AI strategy behind our internal tools. Identify where agentic and LLM-powered tooling can supercharge how the business understands