Software Engineer, IAM

Whatnot•San Francisco, CA

3d•$180,000 - $250,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we’re inspired by innovation and anchored in our values . With hubs in the US, UK, Germany, Ireland, and Poland, we’re building the future of online marketplaces –together. From fashion, beauty, and electronics to collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone. And we’re just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces , we’re looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. 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. 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 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.

Requirements

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. You’re a self-starter who can hit the ground running with little direction.
Self-driven with result-oriented mindset
Excellent communication and writing skills.
Exceptional coding skills and the ability to ship new products lightning-fast. We primarily use Python, Elixir, JavaScript, but previous knowledge of each is not required.
Knowledge in areas like cryptography, networking, authentication, and authorization is crucial.
Experience in implementing security measures such as encryption, access controls, data minimization, and regular audits to safeguard PII.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience in a public cloud environment (AWS, GCP) using Kubernetes, Docker, and/or Terraform.
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.