Whatnot · 14 hours ago
Software Engineer, Trust & Risk
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$170K/yr - $230K/yr
7+ years expWhatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe, redefining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment. The Software Engineer role focuses on building systems that ensure safety and trust within the marketplace, utilizing machine learning and data-driven strategies to mitigate risks and enhance user experience.
CollectiblesE-CommerceInformation TechnologyMarketplaceTrading Platform
Responsibilities
Design and develop systems to protect the platform: Build and iterate on production algorithms and infrastructures that mitigate systemic risks and safeguard buyers, sellers, and the broader Whatnot community
Balance risk and user experience: Proactively monitor the impact of protective systems on trusted users, ensuring interventions deliver more value than friction
Respond in real time to threats: Architect event-driven pipelines and detection frameworks that enable near real-time responses to high-risk user behavior
Contribute across the full development lifecycle: Engage in ideation, scoping, prototyping, load testing, deployment, and monitoring to deliver resilient and scalable solutions
Drive cross-team initiatives: Collaborate across multiple product surfaces and operational teams, surfacing insights to leadership and stakeholders through dashboards, notebooks, and clear written documentation
Continuously evolve defenses: Stay ahead of emerging abuse patterns, abuse vectors, and account integrity risks by iterating quickly and rigorously testing solutions
Qualification
Required
7+ years of total software engineering experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, a related technical field, or equivalent work experience
4+ years of software engineering experience building for consumer-scale loads
1+ years of experience writing production code in Python
Business intuition & a data-driven mindset that enables you to think critically about the growth headwinds abuse prevention systems can create
Obsession with impact. You are focused on driving value for users & have a track record of deploying simple solutions wherever feasible
Relentlessness & entrepreneurship. You prioritize your work ruthlessly & run through walls to get things done
Ability to work autonomously and lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams
Comfortability with data warehouses and transformation tools such as Snowflake, dbt, Dagster
Professionalism around collaborating in a remote working environment and well tested reproducible work
Above average documentation and communication skills
Preferred
1+ years of experience in Trust and Risk or Integrity or Fraud domains
Explicit data science or machine-learning experience is a huge plus
Benefits
Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
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
Parental Leave
16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work
Company
Whatnot
Whatnot is a livestream shopping platform for buying and selling products.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Whatnot has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (34)
2024 (20)
2023 (18)
2022 (10)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$974.7MKey Investors
CapitalGY Combinator Continuity FundAndreessen Horowitz
2025-10-28Series F· $225M
2025-01-08Series E· $265M
2022-07-21Series D· $260M
Leadership Team
Jeff Chang
Director of Engineering, Head of Growth
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