Whatnot · 1 day ago
Software Engineer, IAM
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$180K/yr - $250K/yr
5+ years expWhatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe, redefining e-commerce through a blend of community, shopping, and entertainment. The Software Engineer, IAM role focuses on enhancing security and integrity of user account systems, ensuring robust authentication and access controls to minimize risks and empower teams.
CollectiblesE-CommerceInformation TechnologyMarketplaceTrading Platform
Responsibilities
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: Authentication, Authorization, Permissions, Access control systems across the environment, Building a secure storage for PII user data
Qualification
Required
5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience, building scalable systems that can handle millions of users
Experience with large distributed systems handling substantial traffic
Previous experience at a hyper-growth startup
Self-driven with result-oriented mindset
Excellent communication and writing skills
Exceptional coding skills and the ability to ship new products lightning-fast
Knowledge in areas like cryptography, networking, authentication, and authorization
Experience in implementing security measures such as encryption, access controls, data minimization, and regular audits to safeguard PII
Preferred
Nice to have a prior experience in a public cloud environment (AWS, GCP) using Kubernetes, Docker, and/or Terraform
Nice to have a startup experience at high-growth companies
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 leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.
Company
Whatnot
Whatnot is a livestream shopping platform for buying and selling products.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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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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