Software Engineer, Trust & Risk

What You'll Do

• 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
• Proactively monitor the impact of protective systems on trusted users, ensuring interventions deliver more value than friction
• Arcitect 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
• Surfacing insights to leadership and stakeholders through dashboards, notebooks, and clear written documentation
• Continuously evolve defenses

Requirements

• Comfortable figuring things out as they go
• Biased toward action
• Genuinely curious about what they're building
• Focused on driving value for users
• Moves as fast as possible without sacrificing quality
• Prioritizes work ruthlessly
• Curiosity drives them to dig into user problems & craft suggestions on how we can address them
• Ability to work autonomously and lead initiatives across multiple product areas
• Comfortable 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