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Data Engineer, Notifications

180k – 260kSan Francisco, CANew York, NYLos Angeles, CASeattle, WAHybrid5+ YOE
Summary

Builds and owns scalable data pipelines and models for Whatnot's high-volume notifications platform, supporting ML, analytics, and product teams. Requires 5+ years experience with SQL/Python, modern data tools, and cloud warehouses.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own data architecture end-to-end: define capture, modeling, and serving of critical business data; implement in production with decisions on storage, compute, and SLAs.
  • Build mission-critical pipelines: develop and operate batch workflows for high-volume notification events with guarantees on latency, completeness, and accuracy.
  • Design and implement canonical models: create domain-oriented data models as source of truth for analytics, ML, and applications; enforce standards, ownership, and contracts.
  • Enforce data quality at scale: build tests, lineage, monitoring, and reconciliation systems.
  • Automate operational workflows: partner to eliminate manual handoffs and reconcile data across services and warehouses.
  • Enable insights and experimentation: support analytics, ML, and product teams with high-quality data assets.

Requirements

  • 5+ years experience in data or software engineering.
  • Strong experience building production-grade data pipelines with SLAs, monitoring, alerting.
  • Deep expertise in SQL (complex models, dependencies, optimization).
  • Production-grade code in Python or SQL, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code.
  • Hands-on with ingestion (Kafka, Debezium), transformation (dbt, Spark, Flink), orchestration (Dagster, Airflow), observability (Monte Carlo, Great Expectations).
  • Operated cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift): schema design, cost optimization, tuning.
  • Proven with large-scale datasets (hundreds of millions rows/day).
  • Data models balancing analytics, ML, operational use cases.
  • Strong systems thinking (correctness, latency, cost, maintainability).
  • Self-starter, autonomous, exceptional communication.
Skills
SQLPythonKafkaDebeziumdbtSparkFlinkDagsterAirflowSnowflakeBigQueryRedshiftMonte CarloGreat Expectations
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