Database Engineer - Remote

Overview

Whatnot is the largest livestream 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, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together.

In Short

• Own the performance, scalability, and reliability of our Postgres-based data layer.
• Design and implement scalable database architectures.
• Drive long-term strategy for horizontal scaling.
• Ensure high availability and fault tolerance.
• Establish and promote best practices for data access patterns.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of relational database engineering experience; Postgres experience preferred.
• Experience with database optimization, migrations, schema refinement, indexing, and query tuning.
• Prior operational experience with database horizontal scaling strategies is nice to have.
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases (DynamoDB etc).
• Experience in a public cloud environment (AWS, GCP).
• Previous experience at a hyper-growth startup.
• Excellent ability to understand product requirements in the context of a scalable platform.

Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays.
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision.
• Work From Home Support.
• Care benefits including monthly allowance for wellness and childcare.
• Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts.
• Parental Leave with 16 weeks of paid parental leave.